sharing photos of shoots with bright green and reddish leaves. "It keeps popping up in my garden and near my trees and I need ...

A: Consider Lacey oak. It’s native to the Hill Country, also to far Southwest Texas. It grows 20 to 25 feet tall and 15 to 20 ...

Jonathan Lockwood Huie. “Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.” ...

Dear Reader: Consider Lacey oak. It’s native to the Hill Country, also to far Southwest Texas. It grows 20 to 25 feet tall ...

My mother and both my grandmothers used a wood-fired stove for cooking. I often had the chore of cutting and splitting the firewood and stacking it on the porch near ...

I always enjoy being a volunteer for the Christmas in St. Michaels Tour of Homes.  Since this event is usually sold out, I am ...

In the past, it was true that you pruned crape myrtles to reduce powdery mildew infestations. With the breeding of plenty of ...

I usually wait until mid-January to write something on this topic but this week I saw my first severe pruning of a crape myrtle for this dormant season earlier this month. So, instead of visions ...

Many crape myrtles have been killed outright by excessive fall pruning. Keep plants irrigated during late summer and fall to prevent drought stress. Drought-like conditions predispose plants to ...

This story appears in the October 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. We have all held leaves, driven miles to see their fall colors, eaten them, raked them, sought their shade.