Sitting under the wide canopy of a tree can cool you off on a hot summer day and even lower home-energy costs. If your landscape is treeless, the sooner a new tree grows a shady canopy, the better. A ...

Patience is a virtue, and many trees require it. "Trees, in general, live on a much longer timeline than we do, with many living for hundreds, and some even thousands of years," says Nancy Gaspari, an ...

With all of the nutritious varieties of greens we can grow in fall and winter in Central Texas, it’s easy to skip over some of the lesser known varieties like mustard greens. However, these ...

This time-lapse shows how a mustard seed sprouting and growing into a mature plant and blooming. Mustard greens should be ...

Mustard, a nonnative plant more like a weed than a wildflower, is blooming profusely on grassy slopes all along the coastline of San Diego County. An old story, probably apocryphal, tells of the ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

The first-ever tree growing guide for faith groups aims to support organizations in the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss Trillion Trees, WWF and the United Nations Environment ...

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