Your backyard may be a place of peace, play, and plant life—but some of that greenery could be more dangerous than it looks.

Sure it's poisonous and invasive, but to me, pokeweed is the perfect plant for a wildlife garden. Here's why I love this ...

UB Facilities staff have been painting campus green spaces with biodegradable foam in an effort to control unwanted plant ...

Invasive shrubs, such as buckthorn and Japanese barberry, can also contribute to human health impacts. Invasive shrubs create ...

Summer is here and in full swing. Also here are ticks, mosquitoes, bagworms, and poison hemlock. Numbers of ticks have risen ...

Do you loathe Canada thistle? Do you marvel at field bindweed’s “indomitable vitality,” and occasionally leap from your ...

Poison ivy grows in a lot more places than you might think, so knowing how to identify it this summer is a good idea.

As a county Extension educator, I regularly receive calls and emails about a variety of horticultural topics and this week ...

“Symptoms of hemlock poisoning include dilation of the pupils, weakening or slowing pulse, blue coloration around the mouth, ...

Pedestrians and bicyclists along the Colorado Riverfront Trail in Grand Junction may have noticed something out of the ...

The baneberry has red and white varietals, both considered poisonous. Red baneberries are more common in Washington state.

As some of you may have noticed, I did not publish a Father’s Day column last weekend. This was by intent. For those seven ...