Winters were brutal throughout most of New England in Colonial America. It snowed a lot, often into spring, and there were no radiators (or antibiotics). Many settlers didn’t survive the season, but ...

Britain’s favourite garden visitor is under quiet pressure as weather swings grow harsher. Your lawn can help more than you think. Across the UK, ...

If you have been noticing a lot of attractive, white-flowering shrubs in woodland areas around town lately, that is the serviceberry. Also known as Juneberry, shadbush, sarvisberry and Saskatoon-berry ...

Beginning this coming week in Greater Columbus, we should start to see the full bloom of one of the most widely planted flowering trees, the Callery pear. The billowy white flowers of this popular and ...

April might bring showers and May flowers, but it also brings bloom to some of Ohio’s native trees. If a tree also has four-season interest, it’s certainly one to consider for the home landscape. Such ...

Gardeners say a single, affordable tree can turn your patch into a year-round robin stopover, even when worms vanish underground. Across Britain, people ...

A decade ago, when landscape design firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates was tasked with envisioning plant life on the 606 (known to its founders and neighborhood organizers as the Bloomingdale ...

You’re probably familiar with that old saying that if something is “for the birds,” whatever it is, it’s not very good. I’m ...

Callery pear trees (Pyrus calleryana), also referred to as Bradford pears, were introduced to the United States more than 100 years ago. Originally, the trees served as the rootstock to edible pears ...