5+ hour, 38+ min ago   (669+ words) Even when fall fades, these sculpted hedges step in as the permanent structural anchor every high-end landscape needs If we are honest, a winter garden rarely has the same aura and beauty as peak summer, but in Jonathan Scott and…...

8+ hour, 10+ min ago   (89+ words) HF Chronicle Water wasn’t hard to find when Hidden Gem runners reached Ballantrae Saturday morning. Neither were the butterflies. Members of the Jack and Jill of America Inc. Monarch Cities Chapter were waiting with cups as runners came through. Some…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (423+ words) For millions of people, the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is a familiar part of the holiday season in New York City. Every year, the large tree stands in the plaza, decorated with lights and ornaments, before being taken down after…...

57+ min ago   (615+ words) Drought is one of the most punishing stresses a plant can face, and few crops feel that pressure more acutely than basil, a medicinal and aromatic herb whose essential oils, pigments, and delicate foliage depend on a steady water supply....

3+ hour, 8+ min ago   (89+ words) A weed that rice farmers have long regarded as little more than a nuisance for yield and herbicide budgets has now been caught playing a far more consequential role in the field. Chinese sprangletop (Leptochloa chinensis), a fast-colonizing grass that…...

5+ hour, 10+ min ago   (722+ words) High on the ridges of the Kashmir Himalaya, a low-growing aromatic shrub is quietly rewriting what scientists thought they knew about how plants reproduce and survive as altitude climbs....

9+ hour, 21+ min ago   (495+ words) Pamela Hubbard, author of ‘The Contemporary Cottage Garden,’ is a native of England who now lives in the Pocono Mountains. She will be the guest speaker at the Back Mountain Bloomers Luncheon on Oct. 8. If you want to plant a…...

5+ hour, 38+ min ago   (31+ words) you’re just like a flower, you’re ever giving… I think there is something beautiful in being an ‘ever-giving flower’. To bloom so naturally that giving becomes almost …...

5+ hour, 59+ min ago   (55+ words) Scientists in Indonesia have combined cutting-edge analytical chemistry with an urgent global problem in a study of a humble tropical shrub that villagers have relied on for generations. The plant, Rhodomyrtus tomentosa, known widely as rose myrtle, is a pink-flowered…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (156+ words) I’ve led dozens of nature hikes through the years, and on each and every one of them, one of the questions posed to me has been: “What does poison ivy look like?” Notice the edges of poison…...