By David P. Davis Newsroom@DominionPost.com Every year at the West Virginia Botanic Gardens, 1061 Tyrone Road, gardens are expanded, flower beds are refreshed and new plantings are established. Our new pollinator garden beds have added thousands of blooms to the WVBG. ...
You don’t have to mow, I’ll scythe, I said to my father. He has taken me at my word, and our gardens and paths are now more overgrown than usual. It is not that I tired of scything or haven’t gotten to it. I’m still a committed scyther, and do it regularly. The problem is ...
by David P. DavisNewsroom@DominionPost.com In the unique bloom category, I start with a flower that looks like it should be from Africa, and it turns out that it really is. The torch lily, or red hot poker (Kniphofia), is an herbaceous perennial that has narrow leaves and a yellow-orange, ...
by David P. DavisNewsroom@DominionPost.com As late-spring heat hits the garden, many plants are rapidly coming into bloom. And, as we have covered in prior reports, many plant combinations can be found in the Yagle Garden. Blooming now in the Yagle Garden is a great combination of ...
Save the bees! Many of us have said this phrase with conviction. Many of us applaud or nod in support when we hear or read it. The popular phrase often goes along with encouragement to plant flowers that pollinators thrive on, or stop mowing flowers along road sides, or stop use of ...
As I’ve expressed in earlier columns this year, I find the issue of non-native plants to be more convoluted than it might appear at first glance. I don’t believe in using chemicals to poison plants, even if they didn’t evolve here — this strategy is not only ineffective, but ...