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El Niño is a chain of ocean and atmospheric events occurring every five to seven years. El Niño, meaning little boy in Spanish, along with La Niña, meaning little girl,

Sometimes when I tell people I am a gardener, they respond: “I would love to grow a garden, but I don’t have a green thumb!” As an ethnobotanist and agricultural

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me a Steller’s jay in a spruce tree.

It’s official! Flagstaff is now in the USDA plant hardiness zone 6a. I wrote a column about hardiness zones back in 2005 and my last sentence was, “If Flagstaff officially

You finished harvesting your summer and fall vegetables and fruit (how about them apples!) weeks ago. And your perennials, as well as shrubs, are tucked away in their winter beds.

Growing up in my grandfather’s house, I recall how he would plant amaryllis bulbs every year for the holidays.

Note: Wow, there are a lot of falling pine needles falling this year. We thought it would be helpful to rerun Frank Branham’s column from 2019 so you can put

I have always had a good chuckle when I hear someone say, “I should have been more careful what I prayed for.” I was certain such a misfortune would never

During the height of the pandemic, when most of us were working from home, I was sent a link to a recorded Zoom video about horticultural therapy. I had never

Nothing appeared to be amiss when my husband, Hugh, and I ventured outside to weed our vegetable garden plots on the pristine, sunshiny day of June 24, 2023.