Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... People love their dogs, but they also love their gardens, and sometimes it can be hard to reconcile the two. With some thought and work, gardeners and their ...

Spring is the worst time of year to prune your dogwood tree because you can negatively impact spring blooms. If you want to prune your dogwood trees, any other time of the year is perfect, depending ...

Historically, nothing said spring had arrived any better than a flowering dogwood tree. It remains a favored tree in Southern landscapes. Sometimes you may see an occasional dogwood in bloom in the ...

The Scarlet Fire dogwood tree is available for sale through mail order from nurseries. Credit: Tom Molnar Rutgers researchers have developed a hardy, pink dogwood tree that promises to add vibrant ...

Of all the spring blooming trees, the common flowering dogwoods are perhaps the most widely recognized and appreciated. The trees are native to Georgia and are a common understory tree, meaning they ...

Few spring scenes are as spectacular as the annual display provided by dogwood trees in the Ozark woodlands. Inconspicuous for most of the year, these diminutive denizens of our forests outdo their ...

Nobody knows just how the stealthy invader got here. It could have hitched a ride, hidden on some plants imported into the country. But when it arrived in the 1970s, the parasitic fungus spread across ...