SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Many Southerners raised in rural regions of the Deep South have been told that Native Americans once used a special tree to relieve toothache. But there’s more to the ...

Q: I was on a nature hike in North Texas a week ago and came across this pretty but really odd-looking little tree. What is it, and would it ever work in a home landscape? A: It has several names.

Taxonomy: it is a word that suggests a scientific approach to naming organisms and then to classifying them into convenient groups. The ancient Greeks, for a time, thought that all the plants of the ...

Most Friday mornings I sit in my office overseeing the Cooperative Extension Plant Clinic at the New Hanover County Arboretum, answering horticulture questions with a dedicated group of volunteers.

When it comes to red mulberry bragging rights, nobody can out-boast Ashley County. It is home to the biggest such species on the Champion Trees National Register. The tree looms over a backyard in ...

Over the weekend, I planted more trees and shrubs with folks from the city of Norfolk and citizen volunteers. Along with dwarf paw paw (Asimina parviflora) and sand live oak (Quercus geminata), we ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Many ...