Here are the Southern heritage plants that flourish in South Carolina

The Southern Living Garden Book (Oxmoor House, 2004 edition) has an extensive list of what they call “Southern heritage ...

South Carolina Native Plant Society plant sale promotes replacing invasives with natives

Gardeners along the Grand Strand had a chance Sunday morning to stock up on native plants while learning how swapping out ...
Post and Courier

Commentary: How native plants help SC's insects and wildlife thrive

South Carolina’s state tree is the sabal palmetto, but you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s the crape myrtle. They’re ubiquitous along our city streets, and most suburban yards seem to have at least ...
Post and Courier

SC is a national leader in certified backyard wildlife habitats. How do they help plants and animals?

Stacy R. Baker considers her Murrells Inlet backyard to be a kind of sanctuary. In warm weather, honey bees flit about her loquat tree, monarch butterflies light upon her milkweed plants and humming ...

Native Venus flytraps threatened by development near South Carolina coast

Did you know that the Venus flytrap is native to the coastal region of South Carolina and North Carolina? Development ...
Grist

How a species of bamboo could help protect the South from future floods

In early 2024, Michael Fedoroff trekked out to Tuckabum Creek in York County, Alabama. The environmental anthropologist was there to help plant 300 stalks of rivercane, a bamboo plant native to North ...
WLTX19

Have a blooming fun weekend: Plant shows & sales dominate the weekend things-to-do calendar

COLUMBIA, S.C. — It's spring, it's the weekend after Easter, you know what that means: It's time to plant your garden! Plant sales dominate the event calendar this weekend with the Historic Columbia ...