As I walked through my garden the other day, I noticed again a serviceberry called 'Smokey' and how pretty and loaded with fruit it is. Whether laden with early spring flowers, sporting bronzy leaves, ...

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- Just behind Johns Hopkins University by San Martin Drive, you'll find Deb Howard, from the Baltimore Orchard Project, foraging for food. "I'm picking serviceberries, which are ...

On a sunny morning in late June, I noticed some leaves shaking in one particular spot on my serviceberry tree. I knew what that meant. The fruits were ripening. An American robin assured me it was ...

Local foragers know that the last stretch of spring is the serviceberry’s time to shine. The North American native plant’s harvesting season is reaching its tail end. Atlanta foragers, chefs, and ...

What continues to surprise me is that many don’t realize that serviceberries are so common — this edible berry is everywhere! Once you’ve become familiar with their lovely sprays of white flowers, ...

During the summer months in the Vail area, our hillsides and valleys burst into familiar color with a range of native plants. Many of these plants are not only beautiful, they are often edible and ...

A decade ago, when landscape design firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates was tasked with envisioning plant life on the 606 (known to its founders and neighborhood organizers as the Bloomingdale ...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the ...

In case you haven’t heard, I have a new favorite fruit — the western serviceberry (Amelianchier alnifolia). Just one fruit. That’s all it took. Days before that first taste, I happened across a fun ...

As the weather changes in autumn, the chatter of new birdsong in our yards can make us start to wonder which plants our feathered friends might need in spring. One option that will bring more birds to ...