For a Yankee in the South, everything about the environment scares you off. Heat. Humidity. Flying termite season (seriously, it’s a thing). But this cold-and-snow-loving Northerner braved the bugs ...

Readers of this column aren't surprised to see me writing about trees, since I often praise their planting and fuss at those who would indiscriminately cut them down. But this time I am going to stop ...

At this time of year, we tend to think of trees with colorful leaves as native to colder climates than ours. But then Jenny Iyer from the Riverside-Corona Resource Conservation District (RCRCD.org) ...

Elegance is a quality that may not be essential to beauty, and yet when elegance is present, beauty is definitely there, too. It is thus appropriate, I suppose, that Hollywood — where elegance is ...

If there is one leaf shape everyone knows, it’s the maple leaf. Botanically, it’s known as palmately lobed. Just the other day, I was ogling some Japanese maples at a nursery while lamenting how ...