If you can't "learn to live with them," Neil Sperry suggests a ground cover that makes mowing around them unnecessary ...

GARDENER’S MAILBAG Dear Neil, several areas of my lawn are on rather steep slopes. Over the past few years, the roots of ...

Is there an effective treatment for crape myrtle bark scale? It’s not as bad as it was a few years ago, but I’d like to eliminate it.

Dear Neil: I’m seeing the landscape guys putting mounds of mulch around tree trunks in town. Is that really a good idea? It seems like it would cause decay in the wood of the trunks.

A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory ...

Aeration helps your grass grow strong by letting air, water, and nutrients reach the roots.

Discovering the relationship between two plant hormones could lead to crops needing less water and being more ...

The media is out in full force to smear and destroy the team of young genius techies that Elon Musk hired to root out government corruption. Just […] ...

In a Nov. 11 commentary in the Pacer, Dr. Scott Jensen posed a question that I’m summarizing as, “Is the Minnesota process for endorsing candidates for state office too convoluted?” He ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Ecology, led by the UAB and CREAF, analyzes 25 years of evolution of 445,000 trees ...

Groundhog Day predictions about the coming of spring put the spotlight on Punxsutawney Phil every Feb. 2, but celebrating the ...