A series of plant sales coming up feature native varieties that don’t need a lot of water or fuss and that provide food and ...

In a continuing sign of Lilesville’s tourist attraction potential, Whimsical Wings Butterfly Farm will be opening this April, ...

As the days shorten and the air turns crisp, October offers a wonderful opportunity to create a butterfly-friendly garden that not only delights your senses but also supports these graceful ...

October is a time of garden transition. Summer ends and fall begins. Toward the middle of the month, when the air cools and ...

One sign of fall, is the colors on tree leaves are beginning to change into hues of red, orange, and gold. What a beautiful ...

An upright, compact shrub with arching branches. Long panicles of dark purple flowers appear from early summer through to early autumn.

Carnivorous plants have a range of different mechanisms for catching prey, from tall trumpet-like pitchers, to rounded cups and traps that snap shut, to glistening sticky leaves. Many also produce ...

John Nelson Garden Columnist Sep 28, 2024 Sep 28, 2024 “Asters, Groundsels, and especially Thistles, afford most familiar examples of a hairy or downy pappus; those of thistles, &c. in autumn ...

Big, vibrant and abundant swallowtail butterflies bring a flurry of eye-catching activity to backyards across the United ...

You have probably seen this one’s bright butter-yellow flowers, the plants commonly very abundant ... botanists likened the flowers in shape to butterflies (and the flowers can thus be described ...

As a public service, the herbarium offers free plant identifications. For more information, call 803-777-8175 or email [email protected].

(Sept. 26, 2024) Native plants and I go way back. For decades I have been writing about and advocating for planting natives in the landscape for their beauty, easy care and important role in our ...