After all of the fresh, new green shoots of spring, the vibrant colors of summer flowers, and the charm of the changing leaves in fall, it may seem like the winter months are a little lackluster by ...

Rhizome is the word of the day. It refers to the lateral underground stem that holds sea oats onto fragile dunes. Sea oats have become a minor obsession for me because our fabulous “new” dune system ...

One way to tell that a plant is special is by how people embrace it with names. If George Herman Ruth weren t a special person, he wouldn t have had other names like "Babe Ruth" and the "Bambino." ...

Volunteers and county staff recently installed dune fencing on three miles of coastline with local non-profit Trees on the Coast. The fencing helps expand the dunes and mitigates impacts that have ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — For around 30 years, Earth Balance has been collecting the husks of sea oats from the coast, but in the last few years, the need for the seeds inside them has become more ...

Nonprofit Keep Manatee Beautiful is planning a historic planting of sea oats, which anchor sand dunes that protect shorelines from erosion, flooding and storm surge. Roughly 300 volunteers are signed ...

BILOXI, MS (WLOX) -The battle against beach erosion took another step forward Friday as an army of students and volunteers dug in and planted more than 3,000 sea oats on the beach in Biloxi as part of ...

More than 2,000 sea oats have been planted along the beach of the Department of Environmental Protection's GTM Research Reserve. GTM and Northeast Florida Aquatic Preserves staff, their families and ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Coastal communities turned once again to nature to help protect their cities and towns from future storm impacts. Over the weekend, beach-bordering cities and towns in Brevard ...

GULF SHORES, Ala. (WALA) - A months-long, multimillion-dollar beach restoration project is wrapping up in Gulf Shores with the planting of hundreds of thousands of sea oats. All of this is to help the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The City of Cape Canaveral held one of its largest planting events ever on Saturday, planting 19,000 sea oats across nearly two miles of beach. In order to maintain and ...

Editor’s note: Once a month OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in FranklinCounty profile a plant that occurs naturally in Central Ohio. After all of the fresh, new green shoots of spring, the ...