Seed Picks for Your Southern Garden – Garden & Gun
From left: zinnias; this year's Souther Exposure Seed Exchange catalog; a red alpine strawberry. “I wish we could bottle and sell the hope and enthusiasm that comes with the newness of a fresh start every spring, a stack of seed catalogs, and the come-hither whispers of new plants at local garden shops,” says Mary Beth Shaddix, who with her husband, the nurseryman David Shaddix, grows a garden filled with both new and tried-and-true vegetable varieties each year in Shelby County, Alabama. “Hope keeps me going back to the garden, watching, studying, staying surprised.” As those seed c...