If you live in this part of the world, how does your garden grow?

Here are the telltale signs that youve found yourself in a Southern garden or yard.

This is happiness, wrote one reader.

Southern garden with white picket fence azaleas spanish moss oak trees

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Beware armadillos and moles too.

Be it a vegetable garden, roses, hydrangeas, or a simple grapevine or ivy.

Wrote another, An old pick-up truck on blocks.

Hydrangea with blooms

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Image: hummingbird feeding at a lantana flower.

The flowers of lantana attract hummingbirds.Credit:DansPhotoArt on flickr/Getty Images