As a public health researcher studying youth injury and violence prevention, I recognized immediately what had gone wrong – ...

From a distance Bradford pears and dogwoods look similar, but these trees have distinct traits that can help you distinguish ...

The North Hollywood weather station — which is closer to my residence than any of the other 273 such stations throughout ...

As you wander around outside you may see many different types of trees and shrubs blooming for spring now. It gets us really ...

Few spring scenes are as spectacular as the annual display provided by dogwood trees in the Ozark woodlands. Inconspicuous for most of the year, these diminutive denizens of our forests outdo their ...

The Biltmore Estate Garden ranked No. 2 among North America's most vibrant gardens, outranked by only two points for vibrancy score by the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Florida. The estate's ...

What happens when Zoysia grass is taken over by Bermuda grass? Plus, Grumpy’s gripe of the week on dogwoods. "I live in North Louisiana and my Zoysia grass in the backyard is being taken over by ...

While as many as 60 species of trees and shrubs are in the genus Cornus, the most common locally are our native flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) and the nonnative kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa).

Flowering dogwoods will typically take six years to mature and bear ... Brand, M. H. (2015). “Cornus Florida.” Plant Database. University of Connecticut. Brockman, C.F. 1986. Trees of North America: A ...

For 30-plus minutes in Monday's NCAA title game, Houston's defense flustered a freewheeling Florida offense into playing its own grinding game. But Florida would not be denied. The Gators looked ...