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CNN Live Saturday

Douglasville, GA Hosts Foxhall Flower Show

Aired April 20, 2002 - 12:48   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Speaking of spending some quality time in the garden, we're getting some inspiration from the expert. Jacqui Jeras is among them at Foxhall Flower Show in Douglasville, Georgia. Jacqui, how green is your thumb?

JACQUI JERAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fredricka, I just lost you. So hopefully you can hear me, because I can't hear you any longer, but I'm getting some great inspiration out here. I've been a northern girl all of my life, and this is a traditional Southern garden. And boy, I'll tell you, the Southerners certainly know how to do their gardening.

The flowers are just absolutely beautiful out here, and joining me now is Donna Gould, and she is from Stacey's Garden in South Carolina. And a Southern girl at heart as well.

DONNA GOULD, GARDEN DESIGNER: Yes.

JERAS: And tell us, what makes a traditional Southern garden?

GOULD: Well, one of the best aspects for Southern gardens, as you well know with the drought that we're having, is plants that can maintain themselves during this drought because of the water rationing. And we have a lot of plantings here that are late-summer bloomers, simply because we knew the weather was going to be hot.

JERAS: Right.

GOULD: These snapdragons are an early spring bloomer, but the stadem (ph) surrounding it is a great ground cover for a very drought- tolerant piece of landscape area. Also, it holds up pretty well during the winter here in this area. A lot of the plantings here, there is another stadem (ph) behind it, and this is called the stone crop stadem (ph), a lot of height and a lot of variation in texture and color. So.

JERAS: Speaking of color, the color is just unbelievable here. We have reds and purples and pinks. Is there a certain scheme that you should go by in terms of color for a Southern garden?

GOULD: I think the best scheme that you should go by is what really makes you feel good about your garden. Of course, we always have to go with a lot of different colors, textures, and a lot of air flow through the garden will help the garden seem like a cooler spot and a more comfortable place.

JERAS: Now, this, speaking of comfortable, you have a gorgeous Southern looking gazebo over here to help keep you cool, and functional garden that we have here as well. You can look over my shoulder behind me, a beautiful bird feeder with -- is that climbing roses that's on top of it?

GOULD: Actually, she's a hybritine (ph), she's Queen Elizabeth, and we planted Queen Elizabeth in honor of the queen for this week. She's been trained to be a more upright rose, but a climber would be great.

JERAS: It's beautiful. And it keeps the squirrels off of it, doesn't it?.

GOULD: It sure does. It sure does.

JERAS: It is just beautiful. We've got some good ideas, and Donna here says you can do this at home, all these plants you can find at your local garden shop. So some gorgeous things, some good ideas. This is a little elaborate maybe for me, Fredricka, I don't know about you. But I think I could take a few of them with me.

WHITFIELD: Yeah. Well, I'll be looking for some of those plants. That is so beautiful out there. But you know what? About those squirrels, I'm sorry, there's nothing that can keep a squirrel off a bird feeder. Nothing.

JERAS: Nothing? They'll always find a way.

WHITFIELD: That's right. All right. Thanks a lot, Jacqui.

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