While you rake your newly fallen leaves over the next two weeks, keep an eye out for acorns, walnuts, and chestnuts. You can ...

Knowing a tree’s species is key to understanding their proper growing conditions, how to prune them and what insect and disease problems they might experience. Plus, tree identification is a great ...

Money trees like moist soil, but too much can suffocate and kill the roots. "Because the roots are responsible for absorbing ...

Pear trees require fertilizer when they are young and when the soil lacks essential nutrients. For young trees, a balanced ...

Skunks are primarily insectivores, so they dig for their dinners. A common sign of skunks is the presence of 1 to 3-inch cone ...

Five girls from a Northwest suburban Girl Scout troop were honored with a Silver Award by Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and ...

Dividing herbaceous perennials in the fall is an easy way to create new plants for your garden. A herbaceous perennial overwinters as a fleshy underground mass that can be cut into smaller pieces to ...

Many gardeners understand the ecological importance of native plants, which are those plants that occur naturally in a geographic area, and have evolved over thousands of years, shaped by local ...

Las Pilitas, one of the state's oldest and most respected native plant nurseries, is in the Central Coast, but half of its ...

Urban trees are essential to the health of cities and their residents: they cool neighborhoods, filter pollution from the air ...

This tree was introduced to the United States in the 1700s as an ornamental shade tree. Removing tree of heaven helps protect native plants, stops spotted lanternflies, and prevents damage to ...