Planting flowers
Volunteers with the Twin County Regional Chamber of Commerce plant flowers in a basket at the corner of Main and Oldtown streets in Galax. Chamber board member Noah Malavolti (right) hands flowers up to volunteers Bruce Lyons (left) and Dan Milby (not shown).
Graduation brings closure for high school seniors
Thursday was a clear and cloudless graduation night at Half Moon Bay High School and tension lingered in the air like an electric current. In the parking lot, parents nervously hovered while delicately holding robes and bouquets of flowers.
Guide gives the dirt on Great Basin wildflowers
What has bluish-purple flowers with five petals that form little bowls, has rat-tail foliage, grows in Great Basin National Park and stinks?
New activities make for group of happy campers
A chance to dig in the dirt and plant some flowers. A ride on the swings. A taste of some new food.
Home Grown: Year-round growing often possible in Brazos Valley
This is one of the areas where gardeners have the opportunity to grow flowers and vegetables during several seasons. During many years, we can grow crops during spring, summer, fall and winter.
Grasses add a cool twist to landscape
It is not unusual for a stunning display of flowers to stop people in their tracks, but grasses rarely have that effect. However, at the Mississippi State University Truck Crops Branch Experiment Station in Crystal Springs, a couple of grass-like plants did just that.
Prolific spiderwort flowers last only 1 day
What it is: You may find this clump-forming plant in locations where little else will grow. Although it will survive in moist to boggy soils, you may also see it in dry, naturalized locations.
Bandanna banned in Springfield mall
Officials won’t explain how headgear is offensive. SPRINGFIELD (AP) - A southwest Missouri mall defended its dress code after a security guard told a 10-year-old girl her bandanna decorated with peace signs, smiley faces and flowers violated the mall’s code of conduct.
Weather launches summer delights
TAUNTON - Sun shining, clear blue skies, flowers in bloom, warm breeze - until last nights storm, the perfect way to kick off the first day of summer.
Springfield mall defends dress code
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - A southwest Missouri mall defended its dress code after a security guard told a 10-year-old girl her bandanna decorated with peace signs, smiley faces and flowers violated the malls code of conduct.