The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Van Gogh Museum have staged the first show dedicated to Vincent van Gogh's Roulin ...

A couple has been fighting their local council's efforts to seize the lower edge of their garden - believed to be the site of ...

His sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground. Luke 22:44 ...

Henry David Thoreau and his father invented the graphite, which creates very readable text; This became standard in ...

The budget superstore has updated its gardening department with large olive trees for spring, which could easily transform any back garden into an Italian getaway, as olive trees flourish in the ...

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Twenty million trees will be planted and 2,500 hectares (6,178 acres) of new woodland created in the west of England as part of a "national forest" drive, the government has announced. The Western ...

Olive trees were first domesticated in the Near East around 6,500–7,000 years ago, but their expansion into the Central Mediterranean remained poorly understood.

Together with the oceans, they are one of the two most important carbon sinks, due to their capacity to store carbon in the soil and in tree biomass. As such, promoting fast-growing trees could ...

It too is believed to have gone to a Chinese collector. 5. Wooden Cabins among the Olive Trees and Cypresses, $71m, 2021 Van Gogh’s Wooden Cabins among the Olive Trees and Cypresses (October ...

In the late 1880s, Vincent van Gogh spent two years in southern France. Though the period was famously tumultuous for the Dutch artist, it was also remarkably productive: He befriended Joseph ...