Messy fruit and seed pods make for a lot of work. One tree with beautiful flowers is a bit less labor intensive.

Fallen seeds and seed pods can be a major nuisance, but proper identification can make it easier to learn how (and if) you ...

Writer Adam H. Graham tries out a new coastal trail that is helping reinvigorate the communities devastated by the 2011 Great ...

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Groundcovers like goutweed, lily-of-the-valley and periwinkle often begin as living carpets — uniform, green and deceptively serene ...

Some people are born under a gooseberry bush — I was born under a horse chestnut tree. It was huge and magnificent, and it ...

Horticulturist Michael Dirr, author of  “Dirr’s Hardy Trees and Shrubs,” calls the hues “shades of fluorescent pink and rose-red to grape-juice purple-red.” ...

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Based on how they grow, however, spring is not the preferred time to plant hardy trees, shrubs, ground covers and vines.

If you still have any warm-season annuals in your garden beds, they’re probably on their last legs and not looking so great.

We work in a not-for-profit model in order to promote the restoration of this ecologically important keystone species to our forests. We are not patenting the blight resistant American chestnut trees ...