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How the resiliency of one crooked flowering dogwood helped to rescue the beloved species
An unassuming dogwood tree outside Camp David became the solution to a devastating disease. A University of Tennessee professor found it.
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Gardener urges homeowners to rethink popular backyard plant after devastating experience: 'It can take down a tree'
"I have been fighting wisteria for over 10 years." Gardener urges homeowners to rethink popular backyard plant after ...
One Man’s Quest to Reforest the Rio Grande Valley
The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Restoring even a fraction of it could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.
Why some Houston neighborhoods have more trees — and others are left in the heat
Some parts of Houston have more trees than others because of past planning, income levels and racial inequality.
Japanese maples have captured Texans’ hearts. What to know growing them in DFW
It wasn’t until the 1960s and ‘70s when interest in Japanese gardens began to develop. These special maples again caught the ...
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Her Make-A-Wish dream? Plant 1,000 trees across Houston and watch hope grow from the dirt.
This tree, which will someday rise 40 to 60 feet from the patch of dirt Aria lovingly tucked it into Wednesday morning, is ...
A ‘thorn forest’ once covered 1 million acres in the Rio Grande Valley. This man is trying to bring it back
Restoring even a fraction of the Tamaulipan thorn forest could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.
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The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.
Thorn forest once blanketed the Rio Grande Valley. Restoring even a little of it could help the region cope with the impacts ...