Healthy land management is an integrated priority at the ranch because it’s under a conservation easement, managed by nonprofit and land trust Utah Open Lands.

Aphids are a plant pest that can quickly build up to large numbers. Based on questions I’ve had in May, this might be a good ...

I love this time of year, especially in the vegetable garden, since there is so much planting to be done! Late May is the ...

Warmer winter temperatures have altered frost patterns and growing seasons across the United States, forcing botanical ...

Pine Hollow Arboretum is one of many botanical gardens rethinking their planting strategies as the climate warms. These ...

Michael BoothThe Colorado Sun 2013 floods gave state trees water they needed to fight off mountain pine beetle, other forest ...

University of Alberta research is showing how trees and fungi team up to survive and stay healthy against insect attacks—an ...

Overwatering is common, and it harms plants, not to mention water waste. Underwatering is also harmful, especially in hot, windy weather. How can we know we are watering correctly? Most ...

Welcome to the pea family, commonly called the legume family, or as horticulturalist Catherine Kleier would say, the fabulous ...

The natural world is full of bright surprises, like these amphibian, insect, avian—and even mammal—species Why are some ...

Remote wildfires can, on occasion, be part of nature’s grander design for some tree species.

And a relatively wet 2023 for much of the state bolstered many trees against the spread of that beetle, the separate spruce beetle and the spruce budworm. But a dry 2024 set the pests marching ...