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Treat Cat to Outdoor Adventure With Cat-Safe Enclosure Oct. 22, 2020
Q: Monty, our indoor cat, often tries to escape from the house. We know he's safer inside, where he ... Read More
Old-World Flavor Meets Casual Elegance at Mohonk Oct. 11, 2020
By Fyllis Hockman Liz and Dan Gleason from Haddon Heights, New Jersey, were visiting for the 20th ti... Read More
A Family Gets Away to Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains Sep. 27, 2020
By Candyce H. Stapen We work-weary urbanites found a way to escape to the woods during the pandemic.... Read More
Rafting Through the Grand Canyon Jul. 19, 2020
By Doug Hansen Exactly 150 years after John Wesley Powell was the first person to explore the full l... Read More
May 16, 2020 May. 16, 2020
Dear Annie: My next-door neighbor has made my husband and me feel like prisoners in our own home. T... Read More
Attracting Birds May. 13, 2020
Q: I know you have occasionally written about birds in the yard and garden, but I haven't paid too m... Read More
Seasonal Grass Apr. 15, 2020
Question: When I used my drop spreader to fertilize my lawn, it made stripes of fertilized and unfer... Read More
Enjoy Nature and Culture in Juneau, Alaska Mar. 15, 2020
By Margot Black Juneau is a travel gem that delivers all Alaska has to offer in spades: dramatic vis... Read More
Triple Star Whammy Oct. 03, 2019
The direction change of Pluto coincides with the sign change of Mercury (into Scorpio) and then a fe... Read More
Twig Girdlers and Pruners Sep. 04, 2019
Q: All of a sudden, a lot of small short branches broke off the oak tree in our front yard. The grou... Read More
Protecting the Grapevine Aug. 21, 2019
Q: We bought a grapevine on a whim at Home Depot. We planted it along a fence. It grew OK for a coup... Read More
Cucumber Chemicals Aug. 14, 2019
Q: I haven't tried growing cucumbers recently because when I last grew them, they were bitter, and I... Read More
Crabgrass Control Aug. 07, 2019
Q: Our community replaced a bunch of sidewalks and curbs; then they repaired our lawns. They used gr... Read More
Magnolia Scale and Hot Tomatoes Jul. 31, 2019
Q: My magnolia tree has been taken over by flies and wasps. There are half-inch pink bumps on the br... Read More
Vines for a Trellis Jul. 24, 2019
Q: Can you suggest a vine-type plant that can grow and bloom mostly in shade? I have a trellis that ... Read More
A Deeper Look at Daylilies Jul. 17, 2019
The botanical name for daylilies is Hemerocallis. It comes from two Greek words: Hemera is day, and ... Read More
Types of Plant Problems Jul. 10, 2019
Are you a plant-watcher? It may sound boring, but it can be interesting — especially when some... Read More
Problematic Pollarding Jul. 03, 2019
Q: I've got two trees in my yard that were pruned years ago — before I bought — by someo... Read More
Ant Invasion Jun. 26, 2019
Q: Our landscape has been invaded by ants. Actually, the ants aren't out in the landscape but instea... Read More
Flood Mosquitoes Jun. 19, 2019
Many areas have continued to experience heavy rains recently, and a number of places are still flood... Read More
