When planting a fruit tree, most gardeners think of purchasing an Anna apple, August Pride peach, Mission fig or Santa Rosa ...

Birds can have beak abnormalities for a number of reasons, including physical trauma, poor nutrition, exposure to pesticides ...

Lady Louise Windsor made do by sitting on the floor of a packed Great Western Railways service from London to Bristol as The ...

Discover the diversity of holly plant species and cultivars available for gardens of all sizes. Learn how to use hollies to add year-long texture, contrast, and color to the landscape.

Botanists classify berries into a wide range of types – a true berry is a fruit formed by a single flower with seeds embedded in the pulp. Berries here, however, refer to horticultural usage – any ...

Rural women in Chile have denounced a strong uptick in the use of dangerous pesticides in the large agro-export businesses.

Your Money Tree, also known as the Guiana chestnut (Pachira aquatica), is growing in a rather small pot. When grown on a ...

Poinsettias are like holiday background music. They’re everywhere, they’re fine… but after the hundredth one, you kind of ...

Accounts of mistletoe go back as far as the Roman author and naturalist Pliny The Elder 23–79 CE. He mentions it as a cure ...

A new report says Nova Scotia is failing to adequately protect female migrant workers employed on farms and seafood plants in the province.  The report, published by the Centre for ...

The consequences of getting it wrong are well-known – so here are over 40 gifts that she’ll actually want, starting at just ...

Recently our new neighbor gave Mary Alice a bouquet of American holly to use in decorating our home for Christmas. The American holly became known as the Christmas bush due to its history in ancient ...