A decade ago, when landscape design firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates was tasked with envisioning plant life on the 606 (known to its founders and neighborhood organizers as the Bloomingdale ...

Serviceberry, also known as Juneberry, shadbush or downy serviceberry, has something for everyone, producing early blooms in the spring and tasty berries in June. Native Americans dried serviceberries ...

Winters were brutal throughout most of New England inf Colonial America. It snowed a lot, often into spring, and there were no radiators (or antibiotics). Many settlers didn't survive the season, but ...