Palm trees are hardly alien to this hemisphere. Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador who blasted his way through Aztec Mexico, complained about them in a 1525 letter to his master, the Holy ...

Palms are tropical plants, and most aren’t native to Southern California. There are more than 2,500 species in many shapes and sizes. Some plants thought of as palm trees are actually cycads ...

If you want grass that will thrive beneath the shady canopy of your tree rather than just tolerate it, tufted hair grass is an excellent choice. It grows to a mature height of between 2 and 3 feet ...

Wildfires can burn and spread differently depending on what vegetation they burn. The two fires in northern Arizona have ...

Q: My grass is in terrible shape. It has never looked this bad the whole time we’ve been here. It happened after we got those monsoon rains a couple of weeks ago.

And then, if you look directly up, you’ll see a palm tree. Before Augusta National was a golf course it was a nursery. Fruitland Nurseries was owned by the Berckmans family.