Carter Mountain, a Chiles family orchard and a staple apple picking spot, looks a lot different than when the family first ...

The Osage orange tree, native to Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, was once prized for its hardy wood and thorny branches, but ...

This time of year, with a summer’s worth of mosquito bites newly in the rearview, a reprieve from thinking about insects is probably welcome. But not to Marcello Mangano, director of the Phillip ...

Thrips on plants in your garden or indoors can cause a lot of damage. Here's how to stop these pests with simple organic ...

A 20-year quest to rediscover the Colorado Orange apple is seeing the fruits of its labor. But initial taste tests have been ... lackluster.

Every gardener has a favorite "event" during the course of a growing season. No contest in 2024: ours was watching the ...

Your magnolia is very likely the North Dakota State University introduction named Spring Welcome Magnolia. The orangish-brown clusters in your photo are the seed pods. The white-pink object in your ...

AS the golden hues of October (and a fair bit of rain) grace our gardens – it’s a good month to invite vital wildlife in. With caterpillar, insect, slug and snail populations dropping off ...

New research reveals that the invasive Apple Snail -- which threatens rice crops -- could spread further in Africa. A team of researchers suggest that South West along Tana River, Western Kenya and ...

Learn about the most common fall pests, their signs and effective removal tips to keep your home pest-free this season.

Illinois and the surrounding states are full of family-owned, often multigenerational orchards where urbanites can live out ...

As we move into autumn, many gardeners may be tempted to prune their fruit trees - but one gardening expert has issued a ...