Q. I bought two species of potato vine, Solanum jasminoides and S. seaforthiana. The latter produced its lovely lavender blooms followed by green berries that ripened to red. These berries provided a ...

For those of you who get up to the Anderson Valley, the Boonville Hotel has a full-bodied display of porcelain berry vines scrambling over the wooden and rusticated wrought-iron pickets of its front ...

Oriental bittersweet vines and American winterberry shrubs have decorative orange and red berries respectively through much of winter, including here in Lancaster County. These plants have other ...

There I was, driving along this past Sunday, botanizing in rural Fairfield County just north of town, and I went by a blaze of red. Something in my head said it was too early to be seeing fall colors, ...

It seems as though Thanksgiving creeps up on us every year. Most of us are not ready when the day arrives and we are caught short-handed when it comes to enhancing our homes with some Thanksgiving ...

On this beautiful spring day, I’ve been thinking of a little rhyme that Bryan Holt Davis wrote several years ago. “With bluebirds in the nesting box and berries on the vine, if I were stricken with ...

It doesn’t seem like we could already be at the end of July, but we are. The calendar year is more than half over and if you look closely you’ll some small signs of how things in nature are changing.