I lobbied hard to name my first daughter after a certain plant genus, not because it was coincidentally the name of a brief college girlfriend, but rather because the name rolls so lavishly off the ...

A plate of plums sits on a wooden table - Ekaterina Smirnova/Getty Images If your parents ever warned you not to swallow the pits of stone fruits because a fruit tree would grow in your stomach, you ...

*Growth habit: A deciduous tree often sprouting more than one trunk and having a rounded shape growing to 20 feet tall and wide. The leaves are bright green, lancelike in shape and growing to 3 inches ...

BREWSTER -- The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster and the Green Briar Nature Center & Jam Kitchen in Sandwich are working on a unique approach for the public to donate to their common ...

If you listen to Jerry Parson’s and my radio show Gardening South Texas, you know we have been emphasizing that this is a good time to plant shade trees. (The show airs on KLUP (AM 930) from noon to 2 ...

DEAR NEIL: This happened to my Mexican plum last summer. What caused it, and what can I do to prevent it this year? Dear Reader: At first glance I thought this had been caused by caterpillars, but ...

A bipartisan group of legislators is working to prevent Gov. Deval Patrick’s proposed closing of the Newburyport Shellfish Purification Plant, and are asking budget writers to consider an alternative ...

NEWBURYPORT — More than a year after shuttering its doors, the Plum Island purification plant’s future remains unclear with state officials saying Thursday a decision whether to close it for good has ...

Plum Island is no stranger to water leaks when the tides are high and the rain is deep, but the impacts of Tropical Storm Debby have led to sewage spillovers into marshes and creeks. The Plum Island ...

Penn Hills needs to make upgrades to its Plum Creek Sewage Treatment Plant that could cost up to $700,000 within the next two years to prevent sewage from leaking into Plum Creek, according to an ...