On blustery days, the temperature outdoors often feels colder than it actually is. This is because wind blows away the layer ...

Spring is around the corner. Soon the ground will be warm enough to receive your flower, vegetable, and herb starts. It's ...

As spring approaches, the City of San Diego is offering residents an opportunity to enhance their gardens with nutrient-rich compost — completely free of charge.

Randy Sefkar enjoys landscaping at his Sibley Street property in Carver. That enthusiasm doesn’t necessarily end at his property boundaries. “I do my yard, and the median out there, where I’ve planted ...

An early Western attempt to classify plants was made in the fourth century by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher. He divided the plant world into trees, shrubs, and herbs.

A couple who had to make the difficult decision to tell doctors to halt CPR on their newborn child are opening up about ...

Propagating and growing young fruit trees can take years, but there's another option that yields results quickly.

"I plotted out on graph paper a rough shape of the garden I wanted, and then estimated how far the beech tree on the left of ...

The virus is circulating in some wild birds here. But so far, it hasn’t spread to any commercial poultry flocks or dairy ...

Historically, before modern pet owners discovered how much cats love catnip as a treat, the plant was used as a medicine to ...

Jamison and Walker tells Parade Home and Garden that the most common flowers in spring are usually tulips, daffodils, ...

An excellent choice for a small ornamental tree with year-round interest is the kumquat or one of its hybrids, which do not ...