by Tom Watson | Mar 18, 2019 | Music at St. Albans
Search for: ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Music at St. Albans: Music and Community Outreach Music @ St. Albans will present a classical music concert on Sunday, April 28, 2019 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. at St. Albans Episcopal Church in Davidson. The artists will be the Mannheim...
by Tom Watson | Mar 17, 2019 | Green & Growing
Search for: GREEN AND GROWING Spring is Here! Spring is here. The weather, the flowers, the birds, and above all, the itchy feeling in the palms of gardeners’ hands tells us so, regardless of the date of the equinox or last frost. This winter’s persistent rain has...
by Tom Watson | Jun 10, 2018 | Green & Growing, Top Right Box
Search for: GREEN AND GROWING Cankerworm Update My friends in the various gardening circuits in which I orbit have all been asking the same question: What happened to the cankerworms? I observed almost no adult moths in my Tanglefoot® bands this year. Nor did I see or...
by Tom Watson | Apr 10, 2018 | Green & Growing
Search for: GREEN AND GROWING Rain Gardens Rain is a free but fickle gift to the garden. It falls when it will and in unforeseeable quantities. Too much rain creates damaging runoff; too little rainfall may destroy a garden. The rain garden addresses these problems by...
by Tom Watson | Mar 11, 2018 | Green & Growing
Search for: GREEN AND GROWING Go Plant a Tree We’ve sprung forward into spring and daylight savings time. Now, it’s tree savings time—the second-best time of the year to plant trees (late fall is best). We may think we know how to plant a container grown tree, but...