MORGANTOWN -- Since 2012, the West Virginia Botanic Garden on Tyrone Road has hosted an annual garden party fundraiser. “This event is really special. To host an outdoor dining experience in the state’s flagship garden with a festive summer atmosphere to match the blooming flowers is ...
By David P. DavisNewsroom@DominionPost.com This week, the West Virginia Botanic Garden is “on fire” with a full display of summer flowering plants and the insects that love them. WARNING: If you do not like insects, stay away! But, if you like flowers, butterflies, bees and beetles, ...
By David P. DavisNewsroom@DominionPost.com Summer is in full swing here in West Virginia, with plenty of hot weather and rain. These are great growing conditions for everything in bloom, especially plants that are annuals and have only one season to make their mark. At the West Virginia ...
By David P. DavisNewsroom@DominionPost.com What’s blooming this week at the West Virginia Botanic Gardens? Daylilies galore, black-eyed Susans everywhere and now, Shasta daisies framing everything around them. But what I am really excited about this week is that the monarch butterflies ...
By David P. Davis Newsroom@DominionPost.com This article is dedicated to my mom, Sarah Davis, who passed away this week at 94. Sarah was a true lover of plants and gardening to the end. Daylilies are perennial plants in the genus Hemerocallis and are not in the lily family, although ...
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. ...