Pincushion Flower Identification “I saw this beautiful flower (above) while visiting my son in Vermont. What is the name of it?” asks Birds & Blooms reader Samantha Bisceglia of Sarasota, Florida.

Jim Bernhard, a Louisiana business executive and the owner of Pin Oak Stud near Versailles, Ky., died Nov. 16 after a brief illness, according to multiple reports. The Baton Rouge resident was 71.

A new artwork depicting a county flower sculptured out of ancient oak is set to be completed. Natasha Houseago, who has been the artist in residence in Ducklington, Oxfordshire, since July said she ...

With countryside paths littered with autumn acorns, conservation charities have explained the bumper crop is all down to Britain having a "mast year". The National Trust said a "mast year" occurs ...

(WKBN) — Have you noticed more acorns littered around oak trees than in years past? It’s not your imagination. This fall is experiencing what’s known as a mast year, meaning oak trees are producing ...

HOUSTON, Oct. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Calpine Corporation today announced the close of a Texas Energy Fund loan agreement to support development of a 460-megawatt peaking facility adjacent to the ...

The National Shrine of the Little Flower Basilica in Royal Oak is hosting veneration and mass for thousands to honor its patroness Saint Therese. The relics of Saint Therese will be at the basilica ...

As autumn steps up a gear, it is not just leaves carpeting the ground this year. You may have spotted a surplus of acorns littering the woodland paths. This year's bumper crop is mainly due to a ...

Feeling itchy? You may have the latest brood of cicadas to blame. The estimated trillions of periodical brood cicadas that emerged in multiple U.S. states this year may be gone for the foreseeable ...

Dead trees line the Salt Creek and Platte River near Mahoney State Park in June 2025. Horticulturists with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission were stumped when they started seeing significant ...