Some lilac varieties will send scents wafting across whole yards, with Syringa meyeri Palabin being among the most powerfully ...

After many years working as a professional gardener, these are my go-to plants to prune in July, for a thriving yard in the ...

While most pruning work is done in the dormant season, these plants rely on a mid-summer trim to keep them healthy and ensure ...

Elke Thorsen, 16, reflects on her efforts to launch a Darien High School Shoulder Check club as the NHL showcase prepares for ...

Today’s column introduces guidelines for year-round gardening for herbaceous perennial plants that are native to a ...

A philanthropist is a person who donates time, money, experience, skills or talent to help create a better world. Anyone can ...

There’s a magical place in Michigan where the clip-clop of hooves replaces the honk of horns, where fudge is practically its own food group, and where time seems to have stopped somewhere around 1898.

Four miles off the northern tip of Michigan’s mitten, nestled between two Great Lakes, sits a tiny island where time moves at the pace of horse hooves rather than horsepower. Mackinac Island exists as ...

Truth is, we don’t know how the Tree of Life will fall, and we don’t know when. It could happen in five years, in 40 years, ...

Deciduous trees include oaks, maples, birches and willows, and any other tree you see losing leaves during autumn. Losing leaves allows the tree to spend less energy in the winter.

As the growing tide of travelers strains housing, water and hot spots, protests and measures to lessen the effects of ...

There’s a simplicity in mourning the world in this climate crisis; the evidence speaks for itself. Tap tap. The burden of grieving and loving our wounded world together, though, is more bearable.