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HIROSHIGE: The British Museum ... On the last day, many of the plants are sold off at reduced prices, making for interesting scenes of palm trees and the like being lugged home on the Tube. 20-24 May.
College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn is celebrating Japan’s iconic Shogun era with a never-seen-in-the-U.S. art exhibit. “Hokusai & Ukiyo-e: The Floating World, Artworks from the Chiossone Collectio… ...
Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost 2,000 years old. A Phoebe zhennan tree, about 400 years old, in the Wen-Qi ...
Together, the results illustrate how trees can “remember” times of abundance as well as scarcity. The latter, as illustrated by the spruce study, bodes well for trees’ ability to cope with a ...
A visit to historic or meaningful trees provides a sense of connection to the wonder of the natural world. Vital parts of their ecosystems, trees also spark our imagination, inspire famous books ...
Many homeowners wonder how to get grass to grow beneath a tree, where it often is bare or patchy. “It’s better for both the grass and the tree if you don’t try,” said Spencer Campbell ...
Iris flowers are seen at Horikiri Shobuen Iris Garden in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward, June 13, 2025. Some 6,000 Japanese iris plants in around 200 varieti ...
The fire is burning in the Covington Flats area of Joshua Tree National Park, an important region where experts say the trees are best suited to survive and reproduce in a warming climate.
Utagawa Hiroshige III was a Japanese Asian Antiquities artist who was born in 1842. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Scholten Japanese Art have featured Utagawa Hiroshige III's work in the ...
One of Nebraska's oldest trees, a bur oak estimated to be more than 380 years old, has died. The tree, known as the "Old Wolf Oak," is located at Ponca State Park in northeastern Nebraska along ...
Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total ...
Well-meaning gardeners may do more harm than good. Here are some things to watch for with trees.