I don’t know what our future weather holds, but on a recent local weather report the meteorologist said that October is shaping up to be our driest one ever recorded. He also said that rainfall ...

We are living in a golden age of apples, a time of delicious, diverse, mouth-watering abundance that we could barely have imagined at the turn of the millennium. How did we get to a time when most ...

For evergreen foliage, it's hard to beat the Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) which, as you might guess from the Latin, is not a true cedar but actually a juniper. Read the original ...

For evergreen foliage, it's hard to beat the Eastern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) which, as you might guess from the Latin, is not a true cedar but actually a juniper.

One Michigan homeowner living alongside a busy highway decided to take the matters of noise-blocking into their own hands — or rather, into their soil. They described their situation in a post on the ...

The term native plant is fluid and can have many different meanings. In general, native plants are species that were present at the beginning of the European settlement of North America. These plants ...

Common juniper (Juniperus communis) is one of only three conifers native to the UK. It's a member of the cypress family and grows on chalk or limestone in lowland areas, as well as moors, woodland and ...