Category: Sean Clougherty

During the holidays, it’s common for relatives to visit the graves of loved ones and beautify the resting places with flowers, ornaments and wreaths. For the last five years, Dorchester County youngster Trevor Geer and his...

For decades, Pat McNeal had the same dozen or so irises in her flowerbeds. She maintained the beds and plants just as she did the rest of her landscape. But while tooling around the internet in 2007, she came across iris...

Fertilizers comes in numerous forms and in the category of “green manure” — plants whose biomass puts nutrients back into the soil — there’s Comfrey. Maria Velikonja, a Master Gardener and owner of Carniola Farms in Parsonsburg...

Along with asters being an attractive flower, it also has an intriguing history. Its name comes from the Greek word for star, referring to the shape of its flowers. Their flower heads appear as a single flower but with a closer...