Category: How Does Your Garden Grow?

The general definition of a native plant is one that was here before European colonization. We...

By Will Balk, Jr.  Maybe the ice-storm photo here? Winter is barely one-third gone, and the past...

I don’t know how our editor, Margaret Evans, does it. I’ve only been doing this column for a...

By Laura Lee Rose   When you start a journey there is always the first step. Then there are...

Well, this certainly doesn’t seem right: November 11 is the beginning of the 2020 Masters...

I can’t count the times I have looked at a plant and said “Oh, I used to have one of those.”  ...

Who are the Pollinators? Insects, including bees, beetles, wasps, flies, moths, and butterflies...

Fresh garden fruits and vegetables and colorful swaths of blooms are only part of the impulse for...

The title for this article was inspired by my friend, Alice Massey, a former contributor to this...

Be amazed by the biodiversity in soil! The soil food web includes bacteria, fungi, nematodes,...

Here at the farm, camellias – those magnificent queens of the southern garden – have been a part...

White flag. I surrender. I have expended my last vestige of energy on those cruel invaders. How...

I met a young farmer who said he was growing Yuccas in one of his fields.  As a lifelong learner...

I may be among the few human beings yet alive who can remember – and with fond appreciation – the...

No climate is perfect to grow everything. When Mother Nature was young, she allowed those...

No climate is perfect to grow everything. When Mother Nature was young, she allowed those...

I can just get it off my chest. I am a bird lover. I can’t begin at this late age to learn their...

At various points during the year, I can predict with some certainty that a flurry of questions...

The year of Covid-19 is also the year when The Beaufort Garden Club needed to install a new Board...

I suppose I should add armadillos, too. These are the creatures who make our lawns and gardens...