Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin joined the Puerto Rican musician in a show that celebrated Latino heritage and was performed mostly in Spanish. His appearance had become a political flashpoint amid his ...

Winter gardens can be dreary and brown, but these flowering plants add color before spring arrives. Learn more about flowering plants that prove spring is coming during the late winter months.

Your holiday gifts have all been opened and promptly returned to the store. It was the thought that counted  anyway…not that ...

Boost the beauty and pollinator appeal of your gardens and containers with flowering bulbs. A combination of spring- and fall ...

A freshman seminar encourages students to behave differently in the world and feel more passionately about biodiversity.

In a world where experiences come with increasingly hefty price tags, there exists a 43-mile stretch of heaven in West ...

Many of us observe the beauty of trees and bushes during winter, standing leafless and bare during cold months. However, not all deciduous trees and bushes lose their leaves in the fall, but cling on ...

It has been an unusually cold winter so far. My sympathies go out to those who came here looking for a bit of respite from the frozen north.

Generous rains in December and early January made for early blooming hillsides and canyons. Already, hoary-leaf Ceanothus ( Ceanothus crassifolius) is showing its ivory-white colored flowers, soon to ...

If you want to plant lettuce outside, do it in a cold frame or start lettuce seeds indoors 4 to 6 weeks before your expected ...

A quick hike in Illinois leads to sweeping ridge views, sculpted sandstone, and sunsets that feel almost too cinematic to be real.

Since crape myrtles come in many sizes, choose the spot to plant so you can determine the height and spread of the shrub or ...