Blueberries from Oregon to B.C. are being baked on the bush. Raspberries too. Growers are calling the heat damage catastrophic. Most West Coast blueberry growers were just getting ready to harvest ...

An old adage about poison ivy says, "Leaflets three, let it be; berries white, hide from sight." It's good advice. Poison ivy leaves are compound, meaning that each leaf consists of more than one ...

The edge of the Dandenong Ranges, east of Melbourne, is known as the heart of berry country. Here they grow strawberries, loganberries, raspberries, boysenberries, brambleberries - just about every ...

There I was, driving along this past Sunday, botanizing in rural Fairfield County just north of town, and I went by a blaze of red. Something in my head said it was too early to be seeing fall colors, ...

When you're establishing a new garden or you're trying to hide an unsightly fence, your first thoughts might be to find a gorgeous, fast-growing vine that will cover a structure in record time while ...

It doesn’t seem like we could already be at the end of July, but we are. The calendar year is more than half over and if you look closely you’ll some small signs of how things in nature are changing.

I've got you in a stranglehold baby. If trees, mailboxes, shrubs and fences could sing, perhaps this line from Ted Nugent's self-titled 1975 album would be the cover song. By their very nature, vines ...