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Catherine Longest has a name for every plant in her sprawling garden.
There's Indian hyacinth and porcelain vine, Japanese climbing fern and oakleaf hydrangea.
And then there are the plants with names you certainly won't find at garden centers--names like Bobbie Horton, Betty Guest, Linda Bryant, and Eleanor Robbins.
"The fairy roses I rooted from Billie Trott, and Floyce Shaw gave me this wild azalea," Longest says on an afternoon tour of her 26-acre property northwest of Oxford.
With its roots buried deep in the heritage of north Mississippi, this garden bears connections to family, friends, and neighbors--some of whom Longest still ...