(1)	Louise Boswell spends so much time gardening, she made this sign to direct visitors to her backyard.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(2)	Louise Boswell displays two of the more than 700 varieties of daylilies she grows in her garden.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(3)	Georgiana Jenkins' lushly planted garden incorporates manufactured objects such as painted bricks and tires, iron bed frames, wooden shutters and aluminum strips.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(4)	Jerry Brown plants onions, lettuce and cabbage in his vegetable garden.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(5)	Cambodian gardener, Kong Phong, grows Southeast Asian plants in his Mobile County garden.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(6)	The late Isabel Hill was an avid gardener who spent a lifetime tending 15 acres of Lanark Plantation, her home near Millbrook.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(7)	Isabel Hill's formal garden emphasizes symmetrical flowerbeds and neat borders.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(8)	Hun Hem grows Asian pumpkins used in traditional Cambodian cuisine.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(9)	Bean poles support long beans ready for harvest in this Cambodian garden near Irvington.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(10)	Sacred Harp singers enjoy a picnic under a grape arbor.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(11)	Alma Bodiford shells peas amidst one morning's harvest of corn, squash, purple hull peas and zucchini.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(12)	According to Alma Bodiford, these "standing up" butterbeans are easier to pick than the "sitting down" variety.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(13)	American beauty berries are prized for their purple berries in the fall. As a native plant, it is easy to grow from rooted cuttings or seeds.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(14)	The passionflower, or maypop, is a perennial vine found in the South. Indians ate the fruit and traditional herbalists use the plant as a nerve tonic (sedative) and pain reliever.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(15)	Growing up in rural Alabama, Alma Bodiford recalls using mullein to treat coughs and colds and to sooth the gums of teething babies.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(16)	These gourd birdhouses near Pondville have attracted a colony of purple martins, which eat insects harmful to plants. This method of garden pest control originated with the Indians.	[Photo: Joey Brackner]
(17)	Louise Daniels of Demopolis created these scarecrows to frighten hungry birds away from crops.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(18)	Another scarecrow created by Louise Daniels of Demopolis	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(19)	Gardeners often plant marigolds next to more vulnerable plants because they believe the powerful odor repels harmful insects and even deer.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(20)	Jerry Brown applies a commercial insecticide to his mustard greens.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(21)	The spider lily is also known as the resurrection lily because the foliage dies in the spring; then months later, in the fall, the flower appears seemingly overnight.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(22)	The Brantley Garden Club planted lantana to attract butterflies to their garden.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(23)	The technique of pruning plants flat against a wall is known as espalier. A barber by trade, Nelson Malden and his wife Willodean shaped these pyracantha to show their street address.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(24)	Antique roses grow along an old fencerow near Selma. Old varieties of roses are thought to be hardier and more fragrant than many newer hybrids.	[Photo: Joey Brackner]
(25)	Flowers are judged by category at the Alabama National Fair flower show. These are the entries in the rose section.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(26)	Ave Maria Grotto, a three-acre garden filled with shrines and miniature replicas of holy sites, was the creation of Brother Joseph Zoettl, a Benedictine monk at St. Bernard Abbey in Cullman.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(27)	Dora Haas, Caroline Allen and the ladies of the St. John's Episcopal Church (Montgomery) flower guild decorate the church inside and out with white Easter flowers.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(28)	Exterior of St. John's Episcopal Church decorated for Easter by the church flower guild.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(29)	This crab apple near Rutledge (Crenshaw County) has been transformed into an Easter egg tree.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(30)	A favorite garden statue is that of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals, easily identifiable by his monk's habit and birds.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(31)	This rabbit is one of several hay bale sculptures on James Byrd's ranch near Forkland.	[Photo: Anne Kimzey]
(32)	Theories abound on the origins of whitewashing tree trunks: to deter insects, to make trees more visible in[Photo: Anne Kimzey]