Get the jump on the growing season this year with these pretty early spring flowers that just can’t wait for warm weather. Because these perennial flowers, trees and shrubs are the first to unfurl ...

By JESSICA DAMIANO Spring brings the return of color to the garden as bulbs bloom, perennials re-emerge, and new annuals settle in. But there’s a less common category of plants that’s ...

is one of the early spring ephemerals to wake up the woodland floor, offering a bonus crunch to spring salads and garnishes. Aptly named for their troutlike mottling, the leaves of the trout lily ...

Spring is here, but the signs of spring are slow to come. Most of the woodland wildflowers have yet to push up through the leaf litter on the forest floor ... early flowering (before their leaves ...

Early food for ... with popsicle sticks in spring will make finding them easier. Azure bluet (Houstonia caerulea) — Small, pale-blue flower with yellow center and rosette leaves. Sow seeds just below ...

A spring ephemeral is a plant that emerges before the tree’s leaf out. They take advantage of the sunshine hitting the woodland floor before leaves take ... stumps, rocks, and other stationary ...

Cottonwoods, along with related big-toothed and trembling aspens, are poplars — some of New England’s fastest-growing tree ...

CHATSWORTH, N.J. (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire engulfing part of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens was expected grow Thursday, with ...

As a teen, I lived in a Craftsman house in Malvern. Tommy grew up down the street. Billy Bob was across town. Later, they would form the writing team that created "One False Move." But to me, they ...

This excerpt comes from the forthcoming book “Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America,” which details how a set of toxic compounds have devastated entire ...