Ask UW-Extension horticulture educator Lisa Johnson your questions about your yard, garden and plants. Send questions to ...

Certain trees, like figs, crape myrtles, calamondins, ginkgos, and Japanese maples, can thrive when planted in pots rather ...

That’s Whitefish Dunes State Park for you – Door County’s best-kept secret hiding in plain sight near Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The name alone should give you goosebumps – Whitefish Dunes. It sounds ...

In July, “June gloom” gives way to summer heat. Days are long. Tomatoes finally ripen. Summer fruits are warm on the tree.

A new report exposes how some food companies make misleading climate claims to appear more sustainable than they are.

Often described as “low maintenance” or “hardy,” these plants are simply ones that are near-impossible to kill. They are ...

Dodging fire-ants, snakes and millions of nighttime creepy-crawlies, a group of trekkers advances through the humid Bornean ...

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

Some of the flowers, such as petunias, that you enjoyed into June will probably not tolerate the heat and humidity of summer.

The Emerald Ash Borer, an invasive species of bark beetle that was discovered in Colorado in 2013 and has been expanding through the state, has the potential to damage the Colorado landscape. And ...

The dusty, noisy mill isn’t processing logs from faraway forests but from the city itself. Angel City Lumber’s “whole purpose ...

In the heart of the city, in 1784 David Landreth founded the D. Landreth Seed Company. During its long life, Landreth’s ...