What constitutes a Philly guard? Scrappy. Resilient. Hard-nosed. Mental toughness and perseverance. That's the makeup VCU is ...

The plant Cannabis sativa is an herbaceous flowering annual that was originally native to central and eastern Asia. It has ...

Over the past few years, there has been a lot of talk about using native plants in your landscape and you may be asking ...

Spring brings the return of color to the garden. Bulbs bloom, perennials re-emerge, and new annuals settle in. But there’s a less common category of plants that’s also worth knowing ...

Today is "Palm Sunday" due to the reports people cut palm fronds and met Jesus before Jerusalem. Being a local staple, these ...

The Blue Ridge Parkway has cleared and opened 15 more miles of the 200-mile roadway. The parkway is now open between milepost ...

Those weevils aren't tossed into the river by accident: scientists hope that the insects and their larvae will munch their ...

Spring brings the return of colour to the garden as bulbs bloom, perennials re-emerge, and new annuals settle in. But there’s ...

The backyard is dominated by a bed of native trees, shrubs and grasses ... so this limited the landscapers’ plant choices. Another issue is water pooling in the lowest point of the garden ...

But there’s a less common category of plants that’s also worth knowing: native spring ephemerals ... Azure bluet (Houstonia caerulea) — Small, pale-blue flower with yellow center and rosette leaves.

That is the most common tree in which to see the web tents in our area. Doug Tallamy has probably done more to foster planting native (“coevolved”) plants than anyone in the last 100 years. Native ...