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Red-tail Land Conservancy holds its Wildflower Celebration from 1-4p.m. May 7 at Phyllis and Frank Yuhas Woods near Farmland, Ind.

Gardening during prolonged periods of rain produces unique challenges.

Before eliminating all but your chosen cultivars this year, think about the role native plants have in the ecosystem.

From 1891 until 1969, you could board a passenger train in Covington and ride it to The Homestead in Bath County, along a C&O Railway spur known as the Hot Springs branch. Heading north, it followed the Jackson River, one of a handful of wild trout streams left in Virginia. Brown and rainbow trout, some of them a foot to 18 inches long, still swim that stretch of water below Gathright Dam. But the locomotives and tracks are long gone. In their place are crushed cinders, modern bathrooms, parking areas and picnic tables. Those comprise one of Western Virginia’s most recent rails-to-trails...