When I drove out of Alabama for North Carolina 35 years ago, all I could see behind me were gaunt pines and dry, dull cotton fields, disappearing in the dust of my truck. What a relief, when I got to ...

Q: Could you help me identify this flower and tell me about the plant? I took this photo in my mother's garden in NC and think that it is stokesia, but am not positive. I am entering the photo into a ...

We are confronted this week with a beautiful native species, one which really is a bit mysterious. “Stoke’s aster,” “Blue aster,” Stokesia laevis is a perennial herb that is commonly seen in gardens, ...

For fall-blooming native plants, Mt. Cuba Center shared these options: Peachie’s Pick Stokes’ aster (Stokesia laevis “Peachie’s Pick”) and compact cultivars of helenium, such as Salsa helenium (from ...

A trio of three perennials -- Geranium 'Rozanne' with pink baby's breath and Calamintha 'Marvelette Blue' -- has created a light and airy floral combination that is constantly visited by bees. The ...