Janice Roots' ancestors were chattel numbers 118 through 122, she said. Roots found her distant kin when searching national archives. She came to her grandmother's great-grandfather at number 118.

For Mackenzie Roth, a 25-year-old film marketer based in Sherman Oaks, it began with a trip six months ago to the Home Depot in Glendale. An avid home gardener, Roth has filled her apartment with a ...

Many of us have places in our landscapes where it’s constantly wet. We always say “plants breathe through their roots”, which means that poorly drained sites are bad for most plants since air can’t ...

An aggressive spreader that can have a devastating effect on other plants, this grass is also difficult to remove once you ...

There seems to be something mysterious in the minds of gardeners about using weeping trees in the landscape. Maybe it is a fear of doing it wrong, or perhaps some thought that a weeper just doesn't ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Saturday marks 165 years since of one of the largest slave auctions in U.S. history, known as the Weeping Time. The Weeping Time was a two-day long slave auction in Georgia in ...

Weeping cherries are one of the most-requested nursery trees, and one of the least understood. They also have a very high failure rate; after dogwoods they are our highest warranty cost item. We like ...

* What it is: A fine-needled, light-green conifer with a dramatic, weeping habit. ‘Cascade Falls’ is a variety that grafts a weeping bald cypress found in New Zealand onto the roots of our native ...