Grow Native! Landscape Challenge
Melba and Don Grogan win landscape challenge
A grassy slope near a water pond is an inconvenient chore for the winner of the Grow Native! Landscape Challenge, a $1000 Earth Day makeover the newspaper is coordinating.
The early bird gets the prize
Maybe you’ve got too much shade for the grass to grow under your nice tall trees. Maybe the subsoil that contractors left next to your foundation isn’t supporting plant life as you know it. Or perhaps you’d just like to garden a little more organically.
Rethink your lawn with the Daily Journal Grow Native! Landscape Challenge
Everyone is looking for ways to save money, and growing native plants is something that can help you reduce the cost of maintaining your lawn.
Where the wild things grow
Some wild stuff still happens under the Ozark moon at Mooner’s Hollow in St. Francois State Park, though it’s not moonshine any more.
Wildflower walks, kites, food and more at annual festival
Let’s go fly a kite! Or take a wildflower walk, go on a nature scavenger hunt or get a close look at an electric car.
Take a Walk on the Wildside Saturday
Its crystal clear waters used to be a favorite haunt for moonshiners, but now they are a wildflower haven. Ron Mullikin, formerly the St. Francois State Park naturalist, will be leading an Earth Day Walk on the Wildside at Mooner’s Hollow Saturday in St. Francois State Park.
Wildflower walk at Onondaga
The color and smell of spring will be the focus of a wildflower walk on April 25 at Onondaga Cave State Park near Leasburg.
Win a $1000 Earth Day makeover for your lawn
On Earth Day, you're likely to hear a lot about global warming, saving the rain forest, declining numbers of polar bears in Antarctica. These are important, of course, but there's a less exotic locale where you have a lot more say about what happens to the environment.
Grow Native! Landscape Challenge 2008
Rocky spot becomes green spot
It was a rock spot, but now it’s a green spot. A challenging slope on the shaded side of Michaelle and Carl Hall’s home is now a rain garden full of native plants, thanks to the Grow Native! Landscape Challenge.
Keeping your backyard 'green'
She makes it look easy, but with 4,000 or more plants to care for annually, it is a big job. Linda Resinger is in charge of the Mineral Area College greenhouse and with the help of horticulture students sees that the plants are put in pleasing places to beautify the campus.
Grow Native! workshop June 17
Free workshop helps property owners garden better for wildlife and people
Native plants offer colorful choices for home landscapes
One of the easiest ways to get started with native plants and solve a common landscape problem is to start trying some woodland flowers beneath those tall trees where the grass doesn’t really like to grow.
Grow Native! workshop tonight
Free workshop helps property owners garden better for wildlife and people
A butterfly garden grows up
A butterfly garden is taking shape at the home of Faye Worley, but like the butterflies it is meant to attract, first there was a cocoon and only the hidden potential for beauty.
Bring the birds back to your backyard
Many people like to offer bird feeders all year long to watch songbirds in their backyards. Despite such widespread help, however, many of these feathered friends are on the decline, according to recent scientific studies.
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