I'm guessing that Saint Augustine, the great theologian, also was a gardener. Perhaps a busy day of planting and harvesting was behind a quote of his: "Every day," he said, "we are deafened by the ...

Today we will be discussing one of the most delightful and useful trees in the Piedmont landscape – the charming redbud. I pay a lot of attention to the names of plants and how plant names originated.