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Sowing Salubrious Leafy Salad Greens - Columbia Star (opens the original)
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Red and green leaf lettuces Photos by Arlene Marturano Fall through winter is the best time to grow salad greens in the Midlands. There are fewer insect pests, lower humidity, cooler air temperatures, and the soil remains warm enough for seed germination. The panoply of fall edibles is distinctively different from the hot season harvest. Above all you are the sower and grower. Why purchase fresh food coming from thousands of miles away? You don’t know the farmers, growing conditions, harvesting
Shirley’s Welcoming Garden - Columbia Star (opens the original)
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Shirley Robinson surrounded by her welcoming garden. Photos by Arlene Marturano The parade of annual and perennial plants in Shirley Robinson’s garden invites neighbors and passersby to pause and marvel at the kaleidoscope of colors, textures, and forms. September blooming plants include coleus, common evening primrose, geranium, hydrangea, lantana, marigold, pentas, swamp sunflower, turk’s cap hibiscus, and zinnia. Her flowers attract native bees and butterflies. Seasonal blooming shrubs includ
Peanuts help pets - Columbia Star (opens the original)
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Judges (l-r) David Stringer, Leon Lott, Mary Katherine Harrington, and Katherine Helms sample peanuts at the 2025 Peanut Boil. Photo courtesy of Animal Mission Mark your calendars for the free, family friendly, fun event—the 19th Annual Palmetto Peanut Boil on Saturday, September 26. The street festival is a Columbia tradition hosted on the 2900 block of Devine Street from noon until 6 p.m. to celebrate South Carolina’s official state snack while raising funds for Animal Mission. Join neighbors,
Blue Mistflowers— Star of September’s Garden - Columbia Star (opens the original)
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Bumblebee on blue mistflower Photos by Arlene Marturano Blue mistflowers, Conoclinium coelestinum, bloom in late summer and continue until frost in USDA zones 5 to 10. This Aster family herbaceous perennial, aka blue boneset, wild ageratum, hardy ageratum, is native to the Eastern United States. Its wild native habitat includes wood margins, along streams and ponds, low woods, wet meadows, ditches, disturbed sites, and roadsides. In South Carolina blue mistflowers are commonly found in the Piedm
Birds on the Move - Columbia Star (opens the original)
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Male American goldfinch finds sunflower seed in dried flowerhead. Photos by Arlene Marturano In August we featured monarchs on the move to Mexico, but by September we are seeing migrating birds on the move. While monarchs migrate by day, birds migrate at night. During September and October across North America bird species are headed south at night from their northern breeding grounds to their southern overwintering grounds on these major flyways—the Pacific flyway from Alaska to South America,
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