This Gardening News column is from the online archives of The Star of North Augusta, a collection of more than 25,000 articles published from October 2007 to February 2022. Last month I wrote about ...

How the Monkey Puzzle Tree found its way to Elizabeth Park was, well, a puzzle. “It’s been in our greenhouse for 30 years; we have no idea when it came here. Nobody has any history,” Kathy Kraczkowsky ...

"The trees in the park are an essential part of our historic landscape," said park biologist Julie Hoffman, "Many trees were planted by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, and many trees ...

Some trees are good for tree-houses. Some trees are not. Guess which category this one fits into? It’s a conifer, and like all conifers will produce no flowers ...

It's easy to appreciate the beauty of a tree, but can be much harder to figure out what they are. Photo by Jeff Tome I once took a workshop that evaluated children’s knowledge of nature based on how ...

LAHAINA, Maui (Island News) - As community volunteers do what they can for displaced residents who have lost so much in Lahaina, one group of volunteers is using their expertise to help in their own ...

The notion of the desert as wasteland and simultaneously utopia fascinates architectural historian Luke Leuschner and causes him to chase after some seriously esoteric questions. The resultant mystery ...