When Virginia cedars are having a good year, there’s nothing prettier in the winter landscape than boughs of cedar hanging heavy with soft-blue berries. And this is one of those good years. The old ...

There are many happenings of late summer as we now move into September. Some of these, like the leaf colors, are hard to not notice. Various trees turn at different times and the month is largely one ...

A photo of a cedar waxwing that had died from eating Nandina berries circulated on Facebook recently. The picture upset bird lovers and gardeners alike. The post from Decatur, Ga., was about a flock ...

A reader described a flock of birds as "the most ornamental birds" she'd ever seen. "Are they tropical?" she asked. No, I replied, but they look tropical. I explained that the decorative North ...

Although it’s been more years than I care to count, it doesn’t seem so long ago that I was bouncing along a dirt path in the back of my Granddaddy’s truck with a handful of rag-tag cousins in search ...

Many people would laugh out loud if they heard someone say cedar trees don’t grow in Missouri. The laughter would probably continue until they looked in a tree book and found out that — according to ...