Fences don’t deter gardeners who have for generations found ways over, around and under barriers (both real and figurative) to share plants, tips and recipes — really, bits of ourselves and our cultures, without regard to another gardener’s stripes or background. Since a gardener can’t give or get plants without touching another person, our garden legacies have proven to be real common ground. Now, how about a piece of my grandma’s old rose for your fence…
Felder Rushing is an 11th-generation Southern gardener whose families have been in Mississippi over 250 years. Rushing, a horticulturist, columnist, radio and television personality, author, and photographer, uses a humorous style to promote both simple and unconventional gardening through newspaper columns, magazine articles, blogs, and his weekly NPR program on Mississippi Public Broadcasting. The author of over thirty books and founder of Slow Gardening was named by Southern Living as one of the “25 people most likely to change the South.”
