April 18, 2008 RSS feed / Beauty in the Backyard

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A Knight with snakes at the Museum

Contributed by South Carolina State Museum
S.C. State Museum guests will have the chance to have questions answered about snakes by Chief Curator of Natural History and herpetologist Jim Knight at the Snakes Alive program Saturday, April 19. More...

Plant sale returns to Riverbanks

Contributed by Riverbanks Botanical Garden

Growing season is in full bloom, and Riverbanks Botanical Garden is offering more than 40 species of garden favorites totaling more than 4,000 plants at the annual Plant Sale Saturday, April 26. More...

Palmetto Trail is a valuable resource

Story and Photo by Warner M.Montgomery warner@thecolumbiastar.com

"Since 1989, the Palmetto Conservation Foundation has been working on creating a walking, hiking, and biking trail from the mountains to the sea," began Nancy Stone Collum in her talk to the Greater Piedmont Chapter of The Explorers Club on April 1 More...

Garden of the week

Smelling the roses in Spring Valley
Photos courtesy of Satish Prabhu

Satish Prabhu's rose garden is in Spring Valley. Prabhu has lived in northeast Columbia since October of 1979. This expanded garden was installed in the fall of 1991. More...


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