Sandy Hodson

Not to talk bad about rain, but the blooms on our newest mophead hydrangeas are on the ground this week.

Is there a better time to be a gardener than the spring? Even my flower beds look good, or at least better than usual.

More details emerge about homicide victim's short life.

Starting in 2009, social workers received three calls about the wellbeing of Ty'Asia Phillips, who died last month at age 4. Her father is charged with murder.

I love to shop for flowers, but I also enjoy connecting to other people through plants. It’s one of the reasons why the Pendleton King Park Plant Swap and Sale is one of my favorite events.

The city of Augusta is running out of options to keep a civil lawsuit on the trailer fire deaths of a young couple in 2006 from a jury.

The landscaping at Pam and Ray Doumars' Henry Street home is as classy and elegant as they and their nearly century-old home are.

The gardener's favorite time begins this week with the Sacred Heart Garden Festival. Everyone can get the first peek at the downtown cultural center at 7 p.m. Thursday.

As a Garden Festival volunteer, I got an early tour of the gardens this year. The Pursleys’ place is another excellent choice for the festival, which runs April 27-29.

Terri and Lyn Allgood's Milledge Road home sits far enough back from the street that unless you knew it was there, you would miss the lovely historic home and gardens.

A convicted child molester accused of sexually assaulting four children for several years after his release from prison is headed back to prison, this time for 25 years without the chance of parole.

The Sacred Heart Garden Festival is just a few weeks away, and the folks who graciously agreed to be on the garden tour have been busy for months getting ready.

Every year one would think there's no way the Sacred Heart Garden Festival can find more beautiful gardens. But they do and this year is no exception. As a festival volunteer, I had the good ...

Next Saturday, Augusta is celebrating the first of what hopes to become the annual Augusta Living Green Day.

It's a great time of year to divide perennials - those fabulous plants that live for years instead of dying after a single season.

Everyone who would rather be out working in the garden, welcoming back plants from their winter nap, better pull on those work gloves. March is one of the busiest months for gardening.

Just when I thought I'd be able to work to free an elderly dogwood of English ivy and clean out the surrounding bed of dreadful monkey grass last weekend, the rain came.

Intended to flatten management and reduce payroll, a reorganization of Augusta government in the works since late 2010 hasn't reduced salaries by much, an analysis has found.

There are scads of gardening events coming up.

If the weather isn't ramping up the need to hit the garden, Thursday's speech by Joe Lamp'l inspired even those with the sorest back to pull on the work gloves.