If your yard could use more shade and needs it pronto, here are some of the best fast-growing shade trees to plant in the ...

Walled gardens, or ‘secret garden’ areas with neatly trimmed, low-cut boxwood and water features, created with privacy and ...

Never, ever plant a weeping willow near a house ... Before you know it, this tree will grow taller than your home and at least a dozen feet wide. Even arborvitae designed for tight spaces ...

After months of cold weather and drought, recent rain has brought nature back to life. Columnist Joyce Bupp reflects on the ...

By Hannah Furness When the Princess of Wales sat down to film the video message in which she would tell the world she had ...

I'd like y’all to stroll a bit around downtown Chapel Hill. The trees are waking and I thought it might be nice for us to ...

As ‘The Great Gatsby’ turns 100, Ellie Seymour travelled east from Manhattan to the Hamptons – discovering the places that ...

This time, the colours on the men were more autumnal and forest floor, and Harvey was in a white quasi-priestly robe with trees sketched on it. There would be sins and death and sex of ...

Shaded by a huge weeping willow tree, Zelda called it their “nifty little Babbitt home”. At the peaceful Sands Point Preserve (East Egg), we follow the nature trails of sandy tracks lined with ...

I remember in my early days as a councillor my old pal The Melvinator (he was a young pal then) complained about the council destroying the weeping willow ... grow back more lovely as ever. Me and Mel ...