Not only are monarch butterflies beautiful, they're also important pollinators. To lead them into your garden, try planting ...

Common buckthorn trees and shrubs are difficult to control once they get a foothold. Here's how to manage these landscape ...

The long shadow of the 1960s looms over “Thorn Tree,” a sprawling second novel by Brooklyn-based author Max Ludington. Set largely in Los Angeles in 2017, the book concerns two baby boomers ...

An invasive ant is killing off ants that defend trees from elephants. With less cover, it’s harder for lions to hunt zebras, so they hunt buffalo instead.

This special variety of hawthorn grows in and around Glastonbury and the legendary, original tree is said to have sprouted from the staff of St. Joseph of Arimathea.

At the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, a wildlife preserve in central Kenya, lions and cheetahs mingle with zebras and elephants across many miles of savannah – grasslands with "whistling thorn" acacia ...

Holly and ivy have been traditional Christmas decorations since at least the fifteenth century. Evergreen Holly, sometimes referred to as “Christ's thorn," has carried a Christian symbolism ...

DR. VAUGHAJST CORNISH in his interesting study of historic thorn trees shows that their distribution in England coincides strikingly with the areas invaded in the south by the Belgic tribes from ...

Whistling-thorn trees, the dominant tree species in much of East Africa, provide nectar and shelter for native ants. In exchange, the ants defend the trees against browsers by biting them and ...

STATEN ISLAND, NY -- Residents of the Berry Houses in Dongan Hills attended a fun-filled Christmas tree lighting last Friday, Dec. 8, an event organized exclusively for the children’s delight ...

Ant bodyguards When this “mutualism” is working well, Acacia trees provide ants with swollen thorns, which serve as nesting sites; and nectar, which the ants collect from the bases of Acacia leaves.

If you're looking for a small deciduous tree that is easy to maintain and provides a good display of flowers and berries then perhaps you should consider a crataegus, more commonly known as ...