During this week’s beachcombing survey along the Texas coast, I encountered something rare and exciting: hundreds of red mangrove seeds scattered across the shoreline. These long, torpedo-shaped seeds ...

During this week’s beachcombing survey along the Texas coast, I encountered something rare and exciting: Hundreds of red ...

You might not consider that lawns profit from mulching, but unless you use a leaf catcher each time, you are mulching your ...

Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost ...

As Jan Wolf, a botanist now at the University of Amsterdam, measured tree trunk girth from the ground ... “I found a large wooden fruit with some remnant red seeds that unmistakably belonged ...

I wrote recently about pollinator-friendly plants and, in response, an email from Susan Savolainen, who gardens in Banning, ...

Another popular bagged mulch is shredded wood from pallets and other scrap lumber, usually dyed red ... tree mulch from utility companies or tree services, but since unidentified plants, weed ...

In an impressive feat of rapid urban adaptation, sulphur-crested cockatoos have worked out how to use their feet and their large bodies to twist the tap handles of drinking fountains in order to ...

The fruit is a cone-shaped collection of small capsules that split to reveal bright red seeds. In New Jersey, sweet bay is usually a small tree, reaching a height of 30 feet or so, but farther ...

Approaching the age his dad was when he died at Daytona, a second-generation legend went looking for answers. I went looking, ...

Hall of Fame baseball writer Hal McCoy knows a thing or two about our nation’s pastime. Tap into that knowledge by sending an email to [email protected].