Going native is still a big garden design trend in 2025. Native plants are “at home” in our specific area, and over time have ...

If you are keen to emulate some Japanese garden ideas in your own backyard, the easiest place to start is with some new tree ...

Our list of fast-growing flowering trees will provide a quicker sense of reward. Read on for advice by gardening experts for ...

Adorned with luxurious, flamboyant flowers that can be a handful or more in size, magnolia is the most stunning of flowering trees and takes centre stage in spring ... acuminata, which grew 20 million ...

The dry, cold climate resulted in widespread grass and scrubland. Forest cover became patchy everywhere except for the northern North Island. Our new research tracks how bird life responded to these ...

A map of the Yellow Warbler’s banding and recapture locations, courtesy UMBEL. Here’s what UMBEL had to say about the recapture: “It’s not often that banded birds get “recaptured,” or caught again, at ...

Bird flu is here to stay. The H5N1 avian influenza is proliferating among U.S. cows and there are now two strains circulating among mammals and birds. Though there are only 68 confirmed cases in ...

It’s unclear how long the iconic yellow dryer has been around for, though eagle-eyed movie watchers will have mostly likely spotted the lemon-colored hair gadg in the 1998 cult film “The Slums of ...

The branches of some spring-flowering trees and shrubs can be pruned and coaxed to bloom indoors. Forsythia, pussy willow, serviceberry, crabapple, magnolia, redbud and many fruit trees will all ...

You’ve probably seen it on television before. A large animal like a buffalo allows smaller animals like birds to pick through their fur while remaining unbothered. It may seem strange ...