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Tough Beauties: Perennials That Can Take the Heat (And a Sea Breeze Too)

** This article was written by Angela Mason Foster, Beaufort County Extension Master Gardener Volunteer **Last week while working the Master Gardener Greenline, I received a call from a gentleman in…

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Winter Seed Sowing in Milk Jugs: A Gardener's Guide to Early Starts and Resilient Plants

(This article was written by Angela Mason Foster, Extension Master Gardener Volunteer)As the days grow shorter and colder, many gardeners may feel it’s time to put gardening on hold. But winter…

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Restoring Balance: The Ecological and Practical Benefits of Planting Native Species

(This article was written by Angela Mason Foster, Extension Master Gardener Volunteer)Recently, I had the opportunity to attend a lecture by Doug Tallamy, a renowned entomologist and conservationist,…

The 30 - day Table was from the NC State Climate Office, Warren Field Data (https://products.climate.ncsu.edu/cardinal/scout/?station=319100)

It’s Dry, Are We in a Drought?

The past three weekends, I have had the pleasure of coaching for Leverage Lacrosse NC, a travel team out of Jacksonville, NC. We have been to Greenville, SC, Charleston, SC (my personal favorite),…

What You Need to Know So You Can Grow

The N.C. Cooperative Extension, Beaufort County Center is offering a series of classes beginning Tuesday, February 6th titled, "What You Need To Know So You Can Grow." You will learn about the soil…

I took the photo in our teaching garden here at the Beaufort County Center. This is an older vine (I presume the cultivar to be a superior) in which I have regrown and trained the cordons on to teach how this is done to gardeners in the area.

Muscadine or Scuppernong Grapes

There are few rural residential properties across the Southeast that do not have a grapevine growing somewhere. Be it in an older style overhead arbor, a newer single trellis arrangement, or just…

Gardener Beware

To a plant guy like me, plants are always pretty cool. Plants are energy producers in that they can take sunlight and produce energy through the process of photosynthesis. This provides food for both…

Swallowtail Butterfly sipping nectar from a butterfly bush. (Picture by Jim Lawerence CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Native & Non-native Plants Help Pollinators In Your Garden

We all have our passions! I have a few to be honest. I love my family and right now they are certainly one of my greatest passions. Often folks want to hear about your hobbies, of which one of my…