Heads up, you backyard botanists. Take a look at your region's native plants. Are the bloodroots budding? The saguaro cactus blooming? If so, Project Budburst needs you. The online "citizen science" ...

All across the region this year, lilacs were affected by a fungal disease called pseudocercospora, which got its start during ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! What a change! The first week of May feels like March. Cool temperatures and rain have dominated our weather the last few days. However, do not give up ...

Did you know that the life expectancy of lilacs is 350 years or more? Lilacs planted by French missionaries in 1650 on Michigan's Mackinac Island are the oldest surviving lilacs in America. Lilacs not ...

COLUMBUS — Janet Zulkoski held a white and purple sign reading "Janet's Lilac Lane." The keepsake was hers to take home, and the six lilac bushes waiting to be planted are the public reminder of the ...

A number of years ago I worked in a yard just off the main road in Kent. At the time I was working as a landscape designer for Amber Gardens in Stow. The crew and I took a little break, and during a ...

I have a very large, beautiful lilac bush. It's about 11 years old and 15 feet high. This year I cut numerous branches off of it where all of the leaves were completely dry. On other parts, the leaves ...

Arch Merrill was upset, or at least pretending to be. In May 1948, the Democrat and Chronicle columnist described how he had been upstaged by the Rochester City Council Just as he about to launch a ...

Want to help track climate change? Project Budburst's downloadable activity-guide will walk you through six simple steps to become one of its amateur naturalists. Heads up, you backyard botanists.