article thumbnail

From golf to gardens: Houston’s new botanical garden opens

AGreenLiving

Houston’s Clark Condon designed the garden’s planting and soil, with installation by Landscape Art. First, the garden team analyzed how long-term golfing had impacted the soil. In 2019, gardeners worked on the drainage system and specially blended soils for the garden’s different areas.

Soil 28
article thumbnail

This invasive bug is terrorizing Pennsylvania growers (and it’s coming for your wine)

Grist

Lycorma delicatula , named for the lantern-shaped body of the adult that appears to glow under its dull wings, is used in traditional medicine in China, its native land. We’ve toyed with basically everything,” said Yolanda Chen, associate professor of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. In the U.S.,