People have been celebrating the summer solstice with elaborate rituals since prehistoric times. But humans aren't the only ...

Intelligent gardens with 'talking' trees, Japanese moss mounds and slow gardening – these are my RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 highlights. ... "Pine trees and coastal Tamarix give large-scale structure ...

Pine cones, in a variety of sizes, can be cut to create different styles of “flowers.” Smaller cones have a daisy vibe, longer cones look like lilacs and ends or bottoms of cones become zinnias.

Pine trees like it high and dry Dr. Herrick Brown, a botanist who runs the University of South Carolina's herbarium, poses under a live oak on campus on March 12. Zoe Nicholson/Provided ...

Lastly, trees have reproductive structures: either flowers or cones. All of this information can help you find the essential markers needed to identify a tree. Leaves, bark, twigs, and fruit can ...

The 14 Pine Hill homes will sit on 4.28 acre plot of land in Flower Mound. (Jacob Vaughn/Community Impact) After opposition from local residents, Flower Mound officials approved changes for a new ...

Hydrangeas will grow quite nicely beneath pine trees because they provide some welcome shade. In fact, the best spot in your garden to plant hydrangeas is where they'll receive morning sun and are ...

Surrounded by pine trees, this Lake Michigan beach feels farther up north than Muskegon County. ... Running through the park is Little Flower Creek, which empties out into the big lake.

The pinedrops flower is a similar shape to the flower seen on a blueberry bush, he said. When the flowers die and dry out, the seeds are scattered by the wind but they do not take root easily.

The blue blooms in this North Texas flower bed are pansies, "one of the best flowers to use for annual color during the fall/winter season," says Mark Guckian, owner of Art That Grows.

As it turns out, those signature drill marks on pine trees might indeed be yellow-bellied sapsuckers. I'd seen the markings on pine trees at Salleyland, took a photograph and sent it to Andrew ...