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Sometimes when I tell people I am a gardener, they respond: “I would love to grow a garden, but I don’t have a green thumb!” As an ethnobotanist and agricultural

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me a Steller’s jay in a spruce tree.

Yunique Weathers, 24, of Bennettsville was convicted of murdering 21-year-old De’Erica Fisher, who was gunned down in the Longs area of Horry County.

It’s official! Flagstaff is now in the USDA plant hardiness zone 6a. I wrote a column about hardiness zones back in 2005 and my last sentence was, “If Flagstaff officially

You finished harvesting your summer and fall vegetables and fruit (how about them apples!) weeks ago. And your perennials, as well as shrubs, are tucked away in their winter beds.

When the temperatures at night fall below 20 degrees Fahrenheit, winter mulch for vegetable garden is one of the best things you can do for your plants.

Growing up in my grandfather’s house, I recall how he would plant amaryllis bulbs every year for the holidays.

Note: Wow, there are a lot of falling pine needles falling this year. We thought it would be helpful to rerun Frank Branham’s column from 2019 so you can put

Learn how to weave a pine needle basket by coiling needles from the forest floor to participate in the Native American art of pine needle basketry.

I have always had a good chuckle when I hear someone say, “I should have been more careful what I prayed for.” I was certain such a misfortune would never