More time at home has made for me the silver lining during this pandemic. I feel more tuned in to my valley, and the many living things that call this place home. Years ago, at an owl walk at the West Virginia Botanic Garden in Morgantown, I learned to identify the distinctive call ...
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL After several weeks of serious columns about chronic wasting disease, coronavirus and armyworms, let’s take a break and go to wildlife things that you won’t hear about in the news. Some of these are just fun, and some are of interest to ...
By David P. DavisNewsroom@DominionPost.com As summer wanes, it may seem like there is less to see as we explore gardens, but to me, September is a month when nature shines through asters. Fields of aster’s star-like blooms support many unique species of insects for us to ...
During my childhood I loved to watch Disney’s “Pocahontas.” Every time I watched it, I a got a lecture from my mother. She only allowed me to watch it if I understood the movie was a historically inaccurate fairytale. She emphasized the real and brutal history of Europeans meeting ...
COMMENTARY BY DR. DAVE SAMUEL It started with a small three foot patch of brown in my lawn. Two long years of aerating, seeding, watering and we finally had a respectable Greystone lawn. That brown spot wasn’t a concern. I just thought that I’d mowed too low and with ...
By David P. DavisNewsroom@DominionPost.com As we head into the last few weeks of summer, the West Virginia Botanic Garden (1061 Tyrone Road) is still in full bloom with Mexican sunflowers, tree hydrangea, fennel, cosmos and much, much more. And, we still have some plants forming blooms for ...