The practice dates to ancient Egypt and Rome, where hieroglyphs from 1400 B.C. depict espaliered fig trees to maximize fruit production in small areas.

Wading through a street in Wellampitiya, on the outskirts of Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, in November.Credit...Ishara S. Kodikara/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Supported by By The New York ...

Lanao del Sur Governor Mamintal Adiong Jr. and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Hedva Ser lead the unveiling of the Tree of Peace at the Provincial Capitol Compound in Marawi City on Nov. 29, 2025. The ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

[SINGAPORE] The following companies saw new developments that may affect trading of their securities on Friday (Nov 28): OCBC: Its mobile banking services were fully restored after a two-hour outage ...

Omar Villafranca is a CBS News correspondent based in Dallas. He joined CBS News in 2014 as a correspondent for Newspath. Before CBS, Villafranca worked at KXAS-TV Dallas-Fort Worth, at KOTV-TV the ...

Vermont officials are actively trapping for the invasive Asian long-horned beetle to prevent it from establishing in the state. The beetle poses a significant threat to Vermont's hardwood forests, ...

For decades, I’ve been telling gardeners that fall is the best time to plant hardy trees, shrubs, vines and ground covers. And despite my efforts, March through May remains the prime season when ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: Fruit trees.This is the best time of year to plant fruit trees. If you choose to benefit from the advantages of fall planting, please make sure you use tree ...

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CLEVELAND — An invasive pest that threatens one of Ohio’s most popular landscape plants has been detected in four more counties, including Cuyahoga and Ashtabula, state agriculture officials announced ...

Adult Asian longhorned beetles emerge from within trees in late summer to mate. Females chew small depressions in tree trunks or branches, such as those seen here, to deposit eggs. (Kenneth R. Law, ...