Purple flowers contrast beautifully against green foliage for a striking yard. These options are ideal for shadier garden ...

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Here are four kinds of ticks — and the diseases they potentially carry — to watch out for: ...

Sweet corn is showing up everywhere. It’s that time of year! Sweet corn can be difficult to grow in the home garden, if you ...

Canada has become a country that has: banned a Christian singer from singing; seized and closed bank accounts of Canadians ...

A weekly list of highlights from commercial land use review activity in Portland by Permitting & Development in the prior ...

I've found that a bird bath can be one of the most charming and rewarding additions to my yard. But for me, the beauty of a ...

Hop in at the Racine Zoo to meet their newest residents, Winnie and Gigi, 6-year-old red kangaroo sisters. According to a news release, the kangaroos arrived at the zoo on ...

Gardeners are embracing native plants more and more for their environmental benefits, but native annuals are often overlooked ...

I love ground covers! I did not realize until recently that there is so much to be learned about this topic. The universal ground cover is, of course, turfgrass. People have been using grasses of one ...

Washingtonians breathed a sigh of relief when an 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Russia on Tuesday brought only small waves to ...

Did you return from a European tour of chateau gardens, obsessed with formal knot gardens? Have you spied lovely herb gardens ...