The Sweet Gum Tree is one of the nicest looking trees to grow in the garden. They produce glossy star shaped leaves that turn ...

Voles are a small animal that reside in our forests, orchards, and residential landscapes. Although their size may be small, ...

Fast-growing flowering trees add beauty to your landscape, rewarding you with lovely blooms and towering stature in just a few years. Slower-growing flowering trees can add character to your garden, ...

Redding's pollen levels are expected to reach very high levels by mid-March, impacting allergy sufferers and others.

Grumpy answers readers’ questions about what you can grow from seedling to tree in a wet area, shares plants that help keep ...

Michael Greenstein, president of Kusamura Bonsai Club, shows his elephant bush bonsai in Los Altos on March 28, 2025. Photo by Magali Gauthier. In a Los Altos backyard, there is a redwood tree with a ...

A sweet morsel from The Daily Morning Astorian, March 12, 1884: • Mr. William Smith, who formerly was a resident of East Portland, is a Vermonter and thoroughly understands the manufacture of maple ...

They came from places like California, Chicago and New York, descendants of West Ford, the founder of the historic Gum Springs community in 1833 in southeastern Fairfax County. A crescendo of oohs and ...

Hybrid fruit trees are often hardier. They can also produce delicious fruit in more abundance than their parents. That's a boon for birds visiting your yard.

This fruit tree blooms for two to three weeks in spring and will attract plenty of birds that love nectar, whether they're local or migrating.

Turn your living room into a mini orchard.

In ancient Greece, a hole was drilled in the trunks of almond trees into which plugs of pine tree wood were inserted.