The rain held off Saturday as plant lovers gathered at Freedom Park to plant a tree in honor of Earth and Arbor days. This was the third year that James City County’s Clean County Commission and the ...

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who reports from Nashville on flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. Hackberries are native to Alabama, where I grew up, but I was a child ...

Have you seen something that looks like snowflakes on leaves or branches? If you take a closer look at the white floof, you’ll see that they’re actually insects.Asian woolly hackberry aphids can be ...

Despite having a small size, the Cannabaceae family has had an outsize impact on human history. Between the many uses for cannabis and hemp, the importance of hops in beer brewing, and the food ...

FRISCO - A grove of hackberry trees in Frisco is eliciting two very different responses. While city officials and a grocery store building next to them say they are un-sturdy and prone to disease, the ...