Fertilizer is helpful, even necessary, for a thriving garden, but it doesn't usually have the most pleasant smell. Conceal it ...

The entire month was given over to devotions to the Mother of God, aka the Blessed Virgin Mary. In Catholic schools ...

Highland Park will soon be full of live music, food vendors, and crowds smelling the fragrant scent of lilacs. The 127th ...

One of my earliest memories of a garden occurred in northern Germany at the home of my maternal grandmother, Renate. With a ...

As spring transforms the Inland Northwest with blooming trees, budding lilacs, and golden-yellow Arrowleaf balsamroot carpeting hillsides, another kind of renewal is taking place along the banks of th ...

Lilacs are prized for their large fragrant petals composed of many individual florets. Some of these have a double form to ...

Shade-loving plants like hydrangeas are undesirable neighbors for roses because of the different light conditions required ...

The doors of the Sistine Chapel were shut and locked to the public after all 133 cardinal electors took the oath of secrecy, ...

This hybrid tea rose puts forth large, 5-inch blooms with up to 250 deep-pink petals apiece. Highly fragrant with a scent ...

Lilacs, which bloom on the previous season’s growth, start the bud-setting process pretty quickly after flowering, so Ms.

The cardinal, the latest of a lineage that has been signaling from the tallest tree in the garden for generations; the ...

May is officially here.  The lilacs are in bloom.  The college baseball and softball regular schedules are approaching the chance for postseason play. More impo ...