STRANGE FRUIT—Lillian Smith—Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.75). At first some Atlanta bookstores refused to stock the book. Strange Fruit, they charged, was “dirty,” its picture of the South was ...

Why does Southern California have so many residential fruit trees? Credit the weather, developers, even the Gold Rush. Plus: a list of plant-related June events.

Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black body swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. David Margolick, writer of ...

WHEN GHOSTS COME HOME By Wiley Cash 290 pp. Morrow. $28.99. Oak Island, a beach town tucked inside North Carolina’s coastal elbow, is in its off-season when a plane crashes onto the local ...

Plan now to attend the 2016 Southern Garden Festival, 3502 E. Simcoe St., near Oakbourne Country Club, where guests will enjoy beautiful flowers, plants and trees, art, music and more while ...

As greenhouse gas emissions nudge temperatures higher, trees’ growing ranges are shifting northward, projections from the U.S. Forest Service show. Trees near the southern edge of their ...

Every tree fanatic needs a field guide, and The Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa was written with the non-specialist reader in mind.

Goodreads. The book introduces just 16 different trees, most from the eastern mainland states of Australia. Each species is introduced with a single painting by Rogerson, often showing the trunk ...