Dragonflies are really useful to have in your yard, and if you want to attract them, there's a gorgeous pink-blooming plant ...

WITH THE DRY weather that we always experience here in the summer (more so this year) and just having returned from my cottage in the middle of the “Great North Woods,” let us talk about the virtues ...

Great Peninsula Conservancy has completed its most ambitious planting season yet, with staff, volunteers, and partners planting 16,465 native trees and shrubs across five preserves this winter—more ...

When I decided to replace part of my front lawn with a rain garden, I knew not everyone would understand the idea.

A farmer named Sadiman planted thousands of trees on barren land in Indonesia. His extensive planting of banyan and ficus trees revitalized dry springs after twenty-four years. This reforestation ...

Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis): Native to the edges of marshes and wetlands in the Chicago area, this large, rangy ...

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Natural Resources, Pennsylvania has over 2 million acres of mowed lawn.

Many plants look similar, and while sometimes this results in a harmless case of mistaken identity, other times it could have disastrous consequences for you and your garden. Even experts sometimes ...

To understand what species of plant might have induced such a famous stupor, The New York Times interviewed 10 experts in antiquity, botany and ancient drugs.

The month of July is now more than half over, and it’s been a dry one for some of us. Every so often local meteorologists predict heavy thunderstorms with a lot of rain, but where we live they’ve all ...

Like most gardeners, I occasionally stumble upon fruits and flowers that resemble something else. But a naked man was not on my botanical bingo card.

Common invasive plant may be doing more than crowding out native species; a study suggests it could also reduce natural ...