Imagine this embarrassing scenario: There's a knock on your front door. You open the door to encounter not your all-too-friendly internet salesperson but two serious-looking officials with clipboards ...

While flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) is a well-known small spring flowering tree, the relatively obscure alternate-leaved dogwood (Cornus alternifolia) also has many favorable landscape attributes ...

A homeless man who likes to protect the 1911 pagoda in Riverside Park was attacked Monday evening, as was the pagoda. Former Lt. Gov. and Kansas Treasurer Lynn Rogers, who is spearheading the $200,000 ...

A hidden valley and a gurgling brook have emerged from decades of out of sight, out of mind neglect behind thickets of buckthorn and sumac. I discovered them Saturday in Bryant Lake Regional Park. I ...

READING, Pa. - Photos taken in June show people climbing scaffolding at Reading’s iconic Pagoda, which remains closed for major renovations. It’s one of several reasons safety concerns are still ...

And striped cucumber beetles make their inevitable return. A possible narrative for the past two weeks: swapping pollen for mosquitoes? The rain and damp conditions suggest checking everywhere for ...

READING, Pa. — Scaffolding is up, construction is underway, and soon, Reading's historic Pagoda will go dark. "And with the Pagoda being dark, we don't want the public to be alarmed," said Joey ...

Dogwoods, in the genus Cornus, are among the most versatile native shrubs. With seasonal interest, tolerance of less than perfect conditions and benefits for wildlife, these shrubs are worth ...

PAGODA A PRETTY CHOICE: The Pagoda Dogwood forms beautiful pale-yellow flowers in spring. (National Garden Bureau) “May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.” – Fennel ...

Dogwoods, in the genus Cornus, are among the most versatile native shrubs. With seasonal interest, tolerance of less than perfect conditions and benefits for wildlife, these shrubs are worth ...