Plants and Animals

Question. We purchased daylilies that grew and flowered well this spring and early summer. Now that blooming time is over, what care do the plants need at the end of summer? Answer. A few daylily blooms may linger on during the summer but most plants are only making new growth. A local grower once said he felt daylilies were almost …

Published September 02. 2023 07:11AM by Kristine Porter kporter@tnonline.com A need for new house plants blossomed into a festival. During the pandemic, Amy Wood was disheartened when her favorite plant store closed. That’s when she created a group on Facebook to swap and sell plants – Carbon County Plant People BST (buy, sale, trade). “No one has to pay to …

Lillian Ferguson Lillian Victoria Keebler Ferguson, 98, of Hixson, Tennessee, left this earthly life on August 26, 2023, to dwell forever in the bright glory of Heaven. She joins loved ones who passed before her, including parents Eula and Boyd A. Keebler, sister Betty Jean Keebler Ferguson, aunts and uncles who helped raise her, and her loving husband of 76 …

Call it what you want: being an animal lover, a devout dog parent, a bird watcher, or a cat lady. Either way, there’s a good chance most of us feel connected to animals in one way or another. (Is a dolphin-themed childhood bedroom ringing a bell for anyone else?) But whether it’s the threat of dwindling biodiversity, overcrowded animal shelters, …

High school students with a passion for animals can now intern at Ballydidean Farm Sanctuary on South Whidbey as part of a new nation-wide humane educational program. This is the first year the program known as LEAP – Leaders for Ethics, Animals, and the Planet – is being offered at nonprofit farm sanctuaries outside of the state of California, where …

NORTH DAKOTA (KXNET) — Nobody wants to see a live creature go extinct. But you may not know about a system in place in America that looks after animals and plants that are at risk. It’s called the Candidate Conservation Agreements. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service considers plants and animals that are considered on being put on the Endangered …

By Karen Cohen I often remark to visitors (and myself!), if you look down at just one square foot of the natural world: forest floors, a veggie garden, maybe your compost pile, you will discover a life or all sorts. Even the log cabin’s exterior walls provide cubby holes for ants, carpenter bees, and bats. Sometimes you just have to …

September is the new May for planting. In Maine, late summer into fall is the best time to get native plants in the ground. Benefits of fall planting include cooler temperatures, increased (continued) rainfall leading to reduced watering, and early spring growth. If you’re wondering what to add to your landscape, now is a great time to take inspiration from …

Quick Links Resources and Life on Kreet How to Discover Kreet’s Trait Kreet, moon of Anselon, is one of the first places that players will be able to visit in Starfield. It’s on this moon that they will first receive the Scanner and gain access to useful tools such as the surface map and Photo Mode. Once gamers are able …

UW Professor Ellen Currano touches the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in the Denver Basin, where plant fossils are being collected as part of a project to better understand how and when life rebounded after a meteor wiped out 75 percent of species on Earth 66 million years ago. (Regan Dunn Photo) Using clues from the fossil record, researchers at the University of …