By David P. DavisNewsroom@DominionPost.com This week in What’s Blooming at the West Virginia Botanic Garden (1061 Tyrone Road) we focus on our original pollinator bed, the Butterfly […]
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What’s Blooming at WVBG
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 […]
For Coombs Flowers, business is a thing of beauty
By Dana HantelNewsroom@DominionPost.com In 1952, William and Agnes Coombs opened a greenhouse and flower shop on Canyon Road. William had just graduated from West Virginia University, and […]
What’s blooming at WVBG
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 […]
What’s Blooming at WVBG
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 […]
What’s blooming at WVBG
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. […]
What’s blooming at WVBG
by David P. DavisNewsroom@DominionPost.com In the unique bloom category, I start with a flower that looks like it should be from Africa, and it turns out that […]
What’s Blooming at WVBG
by David P. DavisNewsroom@DominionPost.com As late-spring heat hits the garden, many plants are rapidly coming into bloom. And, as we have covered in prior reports, many plant […]
Goldenrod is a native species, but not without its problems
Save the bees! Many of us have said this phrase with conviction. Many of us applaud or nod in support when we hear or read it. The […]
Goldenrod brightens and helps
As I’ve expressed in earlier columns this year, I find the issue of non-native plants to be more convoluted than it might appear at first glance. I […]
