Botany

Woodworker Wade Ellis didn’t realize the Wilmette tree he’d been hired to make into furniture was famous. “Was it in the news or something?” he’d …...

We rely on plants for almost all of our most basic needs: the air we breathe, the food we eat, shelter from the elements, and …...

Home and garden events, classes and exhibitions are listed below. Suggest your own via reader comments. No store promotions and no frivolous links, please. Jan. 30: Noted architect Frederick Fisher, whose recent projects include the Annenberg Community...

Home and garden events, classes and exhibitions are listed below. Suggest your own via reader comments. No store promotions and no frivolous links, please. Feb. 6: Los Angeles designer and architectural theorist Joe Day of Deegan-Day Design lectures as...

"The New Sunset Western Garden Book" is released with new features including a digital Plant Finder, plant profile photos instead of illustrations, and a new section on edibles....

That sometimes pesky white clover creeping into your grass in spring is the same plant that supposedly brings luck to those who find it in …...

Warning: The dope you are smoking can now be identified by its DNA. Heather Coyle’s new marijuana DNA database at the University of New Haven can tell if a particular fragment of pot is the “White Widow” strain, “Skunk Number...

The Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden welcomes Evanston residents on Sunday, May 6, from noon to 4 p.m. Evanston Public Library Director Karen …...

I am extremely happy about the attention the press and citizens of Baltimore are devoting to the city's trees. The Sun's editorial ("Standing up for city trees" Aug 15) accurately highlights the crisis we face in increasing Baltimore's tree canopy while...

Do lawns generally show any response to micronutrients, such as iron, sulphur, zinc or boron, so that a soil test would be worth the effort? I have been fighting with creeping charlie for many years. I have been using products that contain triclopyr, such...

It's cool one August morning in a forest near the marsh, quiet but for the occasional bellowing of a few green frogs, and two experts on Maryland's flora and fauna are preparing for a sticky mission. Earl "Bud" Reaves dons a wide-brimmed hat and pulls on...

He had been called the Indiana Jones of horticulture, breaking his leg while hanging from a cliff in Mexico to collect bromeliads and facing down the rifles of Ecuadorean soldiers who mistook him for a spy. Nurseryman Gary Hammer "risked life and limb,...