Tree Description: A small or medium-sized tree, up to 35 feet tall with a short, often crooked trunk to 12″ in diameter, and a horizontal branching habit that forms a rather flat and spreading crown.

There is an Eastern dogwood tree (Cornus florida) — so-called since it is native to the Eastern US — at the end of my block, which I check on each spring to see if it’s flowering.

Nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend, entirely, or at least in part, on animal pollination, along with more than 75% of the world’s food crops and 35% of global ...

Protect emerging shoots from slugs in spring and stake as soon as they start to grow. Feed weekly with a high potash fertiliser. After flowering, cut stems back to encourage a second flush of blooms.

Keep watered for the first growing season until plants are established, and then mulch and feed annually. Any pruning should be done immediately after flowering, as forsythia blooms on the growth ...

Every day from 11 am to around 5 pm, Huang Lianfeng welcomes hundreds of diners to his farmhouse restaurant in Dianjiang county, in Southwest China's Chongqing, as the peony blossom season reaches its ...