This is the first episode of Nature Quest, a monthly Short Wave segment that answers listener questions about your local environment. Every month, we'll be bringing you a question from a fellow ...

* What it is: ‘Blue Moon’ is a heavy and long-blooming variety of our Pennsylvania native woodland phlox. Its blue-violet flowers are bigger than the species, offer early-spring food to pollinators, ...

Get the jump on the growing season this year with these pretty early spring flowers that just can’t wait for warm weather.