The Botanical Garden Club held their monthly membership meeting at the Weymouth Center in Southern Pines on March 13. The Great Room was decorated with a festive St. Patrick’s Day theme.

“I started praying because I was scared ... around 1:40 p.m., but the plane made several loops north of CLT before arriving at the gate at 1:47 p.m., according to a tracker on FlightAware, a website ...

A dull hoe is as bad as no hoe. The famous British gardener Gertrude Jekyll advised taking a “rubber” as she called it — a file — into the garden with you to occasionally sharpen your hoe ...