Prickly pear pads, or nopales, are widely available in Mexican groceries, but they are also showing up in Arizona farms.

The Orchard Community Learning Center in Phoenix hosted a workshop centered on the importance of prickly pear cactus, an ...

Desert willow, live oak and redbud are among six South Texas trees that draw bees, butterflies and other pollinators.

Facing both climate change and a crashing pollinator population, plants may be evolving to attract pollinators rather than ...

What was once an unremarkable lawn in Montgomery County has become something neighbors can’t stop talking about. Residents ...

As gardeners across the Northern Shenandoah Valley struggle with summer heat, many are rethinking what they plant and why.

1. Sow turnips now for quick late-summer roots. Choose a sunny, open patch with fine, moist soil, and sow thinly in shallow ...

Larry Cohen and Marla Hexter spent time all over the globe. At their forever home, they foster a garden just right for ...

Dave Kitz has a meme on how to “trim” a Bradford pear tree: The photo shows a chainsaw cutting a towering, white-flowered tree off at the trunk. Kitz loves trees. But as an arborist with the ...

Bradford pear trees are the real Jersey devil. Spring has sprung and the Garden State’s very pretty, but oh-so-stinky, Bradford pears are blossoming — and perfuming neighborhoods with their noxious ...

It’s that time of year again, when Bradford pear trees spread a fishy, chlorine‑like smell across New Jersey neighborhoods. Under a new law, the Bradford pear tree and 29 other nonnative plants that ...