A battle to save 35 stately old pepper trees, the last to frame the streets of Kensington, is far from over. It's already too late for Karla, a centurion located at 4190 Monroe Street - until she was ...

They're invasives, crowding native plants out of over 700,000 acres of the Florida landscape. Some pretty out-there remedies for getting rid of them (including bugs and goats) are being tried. Who ...

MELBOURNE, Fla. -- Biologists may soon have another biological weapon in their war against the infamous Brazilian pepper tree: an army of jumping plant lice. These tiny insects — called Calophya ...

Roughly, 900 Brazilian and California Pepper Trees are part of Coronado's "Urban Forest." The city council approved a plan Tuesday to remove up to 40 trees a year over the next 20 years. Jason Pratt, ...

With whirring power saws and a huge crane, a crew reduced the 135-year-old landmark pepper tree in front of Laguna Beach City Hall to a 12-foot stump. The chop-down Wednesday, Oct. 4 started promptly ...