How-To: Saving Native Seed. Late summer is the nursery's second harvest; here is how to gather, clean, and keep native seed so the plants you love sow true next spring.

Field Notes · Cullowhee Native Plant Conference · Western North Carolina. Jonas and Megan drive north for four days of rhododendron on the rock, endemics on the serpentine barren, and...

Woodlanders Journal Restoring Connectivity Using the power of the home garden to mend native landscapes. On habitat fragmentation, pollinator decline, and how the home garden can become one of the...

There comes a time in every Southern garden when the exuberance of spring has worn itself thin. By July, the once-rhapsodic green of May has dulled to olive; leaves begin...

By a porch-shadowed field, where the air is sweet with summer clover and the cottony drift of seed rides the wind like the ghosts of dreams, the milkweed blooms. And...

A History in Every Leaf Before the advent of modern medicine (and crucial to the evolution of pharmacology!!), the world relied on nature’s apothecary. Across cultures and centuries, medicinal plants...

Gardens, often described as serene escapes, are also bustling battlegrounds where plants engage in a silent and intricate dance of survival. Beneath their tranquil appearance, plants wield sophisticated defense mechanisms...