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Glories of real grits
Most grits you get to cook are from regular modern field corn, and they can be delicious. But make some choices for the best results – don’t even thi…
2 years, 11 months ago
Types of milkweed
One native milkweed, Asclepias tuberosa, called butterfly weed, was super attractive to all sorts of bees, while common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca w…
2 years, 11 months ago
Milkweed and monarchs
Monarch butterflies are specialists which puts them at a certain risk. Their larva can only eat milkweed plants – with habitat destruction and the us…
2 years, 11 months ago
Tagging monarch butterflies
When we were filming the pollinator garden at Irmo Middle School, kids were throwing balls and racing around after their lunch break. Another athleti…
2 years, 11 months ago
Maypops
At the Irmo Middle School, maypops, Passiflora incarnata, found their way to the pollinator garden without being planted. Probably they started when …
2 years, 11 months ago
A garden that teaches
We visited Irmo Middle School recently to see their pollinator garden. Originally started by science teacher Will Green to help migrating monarch’s u…
3 years ago
Laurel hells
Sometimes laurel thickets are called laurel hells and there are tall tales in the Appalachian Mountains about men and hunting dogs getting lost in th…
3 years ago
Mountain laurel
Although the common name of Kalmia latifolia is mountain laurel, you can find this handsome evergreen native plant growing, often in thickets, from t…
3 years ago
Origin of Kalmia Gardens
Kalmia Gardens in Hartsville was the creation of Mrs. D. R. Coker, affectionately called Miss May. The property, originally owned by the Hart Family …
3 years ago
Glacial relics
Recently, our team went to Hartsville and filmed at Kalmia Gardens. Director Dan Hill took us down the slope on that property which drops sixty feet …
3 years ago