Can you guess what event consumes 18 million flowers annually? The Tournament of Roses Parade - which takes place New Year’s Day in...

In the monochromatic sweep of winter, nothing attracts the eye as much as the color red: cardinals, berries, bright red Christmas...

As we drove over the sandy brown sierras in Baja California, about the only thing surviving was the cacti. Not accustomed to desert...

Bora Bora, Tuscany, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Machu Picchu; we all have that elusive place that calls to us. Maybe you’ve heard about it, seen it...

Visiting long lost cousins in Michigan this past summer, I was given little hairy seedpods from the homeplace my mom romped around as a...

Not many of us have seen a cotton plant - much less thought of one when we put on a T-shirt. There’s a lot of steps between the fiber and...

As we’ve seen in the news and witnessed in the onslaught of storms this season, life is a struggle. It’s hard. It can be messy. So where...

Curled up on the couch with a good book and a cup of tea, dusk settles on a perfect Sunday evening. As I turn the page a shrill chirp...

It's harvest time! And if you've had a good crop of tomatoes this year, like I did from a plant someone gave me last spring, you're gonna...

As the summer sun fades, so do many of our garden flowers. If you haven’t already been cutting or pinching back the spent flowers in your...