When life gives you lemons, make lemonade — but what about when life does not give you lemons? Well, you make the lemons yourself (with a bit of soil, gardening and patience for about 15 years!).

Gravel pits at Holston River Park are part of Jon Hathaway's mission to level the playing field for neighborhoods when it comes to heat and flooding.

Growing your own fruits and vegetables can bring you a sense of pride and peace of mind in knowing exactly where your produce originates. Fruit trees in particular add to the landscape of your home ...

Mango tree (Mangifera indica) are rewarding yet somewhat tricky to grow, forming dense canopies of long, oblong leaves and producing white flowers from December to March. They flourish in tropical and ...

There's little as rewarding as eating homegrown fruit. The good news: Many varieties — like mulberry and lemon trees — don't require a large backyard to flourish. While it's true that some fruit trees ...

If you would like to add spring-flowering trees to your landscape, January and February are excellent months to plant them.

The planet is becoming greener, but scientists warn that forests with fast-growing trees are more fragile and less resilient.

A new book details how lignin once protected algae from UV radiation, then later in evolutionary time became a structural support for trees. The following is an excerpt from When the Earth Was Green: ...

To protect the southwest’s iconic Joshua trees, scientists are tinkering with their genetics and searching for climate havens in—and sometimes outside of—their existing habitat.