Just after mid-May, the alders and cottonwoods were suddenly — so it seemed — in full leaf, the fresh, bright green a pleasant contrast with the dark conifers. Even the blueberries and other ...

Do you have places in your garden where pools of water have collected, spots that are slow to drain and leave a mucky bed of mud? You could dig down and add a bottom of sand and gravel for drainage ...

Paul Nieman of Ligonier and his yellow Lab, Lily, hike all around Forbes State Forest, but one spot they visit repeatedly is Spruce Flats Bog.... The soil in a bog consists largely of slowly decaying ...

myrose Foll visits The Bog Garden at Booker T. Washington Park in Charlottesville to talk with Dana Harris about the Albemarle Garden Club’s work to establish and maintain a wetland garden that has ...

Of all of the wonderfully exotic species of plants on this globe we call home, carnivorous bog plants have got to be high on the list when it comes to weirdness. They absolutely look like they belong ...

To create an expansive wildlife refuge out of small and isolated mountain bogs, it takes some patchwork and some mending. Once, there would have been about 5,000 acres of Southern Appalachian mountain ...

The soil in a bog consists largely of slowly decaying plant matter. Along with being acidic, it is oxygen- and nutrient-poor, limiting the types of... Paul Nieman of Ligonier and his yellow Lab, Lily, ...

WASKISH, Minn. — Take a trip about an hour north of Bemidji, Minn., and you’ll encounter a world both rugged and serene, a contradictory fusion of nature called the Big Bog. It’s a spongy moss-covered ...

We consume nearly 400 million pounds of cranberries annually—but how they’re harvested might surprise you. Cranberry bogs are ...