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“G” is for Gary, Frank Boyd (1860-1922). U.S. senator, jurist.

Magnolia fraseri, commonly known as Fraser magnolia, mountain magnolia, earleaf cucumbertree, or mountain-oread, is a species of magnolia native to the south-eastern United States in the southern Appalachian Mountains and adjacent Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain from West Virginia south to northern Florida and west to eastern Texas.

Concert etiquette. It’s really just a matter of common sense and good manners. If you think you may be at risk of a coughing or sneezing fit, sit on the…

After working with Riverbanks Zoo and Botanical Garden in Columbia, SC, the San Antonio Botanical Garden, and the Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden at Belmont, NC, our next guest finally decided he was ready to embark on his own entrepreneurial adventure in the landscape business.Mike Switzer interviews Todd Beasley, owner of Primitive by Design in Columbia, SC.

An update of the news, events and issues that are trending right now across South Carolina's business community.Mike Switzer interviews Andy Owens, managing editor of SCBizNews, the company that publishes the Columbia Regional Business Report, Charleston Regional Business Journal, GSA Business and SCBizNews magazine.

2020 was a lost year economically. 2021 has been a recovery year so far but it has also become a confusing year. Will the Delta variant derail everything or will the culprit be inflation? Or, could we somehow continue the recovery?Mike Switzer interviews Frank Hefner, Director Office of Economic Analysis and Professor of Economics at the College of Charleston.

As part of our continuing series of encore episodes celebrating The Journal at 21, we encore a 2014 episode with the late novelist Pat Conroy, author of The Water is Wide, The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, and The Death of Santini. Conroy joins Walter Edgar for an event celebrating the author’s life; his work; and One Book, One Columbia’s 2014 selection, My Reading Life (Nan A. Talese, 2010). The conversation was recorded before an audience of over 2000, at Columbia’s Township Auditorium, on the evening of February 27.

Goldenrod happens to bloom when some of us have start having hay fever – the real culprit this time of year is ragweed.

When rubber was difficult to get during World War One, Henry Ford asked Thomas Edison to find a plant native to the US that could be used for rubber production so he could have tires for his cars.

Clematis terniflora is a vine with opposite, pinnately compound leaves, on climbing stems. The flowers are white, borne in fall. It is considered a Category II invasive plant in Florida (north and central) and some other eastern states, meaning invading native plant communities but not yet seen as displacing native species