When I was a little girl, I would spend my spring with my grandmother, who lived in a tiny village in the eastern part of Henan province. The village is surrounded by locust trees. Flowering in late ...

Plant breeders keep hoping for a big success. The tough Black Locust, Robinia pseudoacacia, has been crossed several times with the shrub-like Clammy Locust, Robinia viscosa. The tall and graceful ...

Q: A couple of doors down from our home there is a large, round-headed shaped tree in the yard that has fairly large clusters of white blooms. Sort of shaped like a cluster of grapes. When we asked ...

The air was clear and the wind refreshing as I sat on the front porch on a recent early morning. The beauty of the day, though, belied the fact that it still hadn't rained much -- and we really need ...