With temperatures fluctuating like a roller coaster, local plant experts are offering guidance on how to protect your outdoor ...

Now is the time for some winter pruning on ornamental shrubs and trees. From December to late March is the perfect time to ...

Frigid Texas winters are beneficial for peach trees because they need a certain number of "chilling hours" to yield a good ...

The above image shows a 20-meter-long chunk of frozen carbon dioxide falling off a cliff. Rising temperatures during the ...

Shoulder seasons, including May to June and August through September, are also ideal ... killed off by night frost and dropping temperatures. Note that there may still be significant snow in ...

For almost 20 years, eminent local historian Malcolm Neesam contributed a series of remarkable articles to the Advertiser.

Fern frost, or flowers, form on frigid mornings. The air is saturated with water vapor, and when these molecules come into ...

On average, Starke has its last freeze around Feb. 18 and frost Mar. 15. Glen St. Mary has its average last freeze Mar. 12 ...

The best time to prune most of our deciduous trees and shrubs is late winter. One reason is that insect pests and plant ...

When I heard that a previously unpublished poem by Robert Frost had been discovered, I was skeptical. I know Frost’s poetry well, having written “Robert Frost: A Life” and, quite recently ...