If you live in a place blessed with an abundance of lilac (perhaps outside your front door, or in the fields and hedgerows of ...

I grew up with a lilac shrub right outside my bedroom window. Each May, when the breeze hit just right, the scent would trail through the screen. And how nice that scent was. Light, tender ...

During a longer time scale, these evolutionary dynamics are less predictable. The insect populations may experience a chance ...

Spring is the time to prune shrubs that need some attention. Cutting them back now will keep them growing healthy and ...

COLD SPRING, Minn. — Thin branches — bowing at the weight of lush purple flowers — stretch over 12 feet high in Mike Nistler's "lilac labyrinth." Stepping onto the path between bushes ...

Adorned with plumes of fragrant flowers in May, lilacs are harbingers of summer. Hazel Sillver looks at their history, as well as which to grow and how to encourage them to thrive ...

A shrub jay with a Timema stick insect in its beak. Utah State University biologist Zach Gompert and colleagues observe recurring evolutionary changes, over time in stick insects; publish findings in ...

JACOBS PRAIRIE, Minnesota — For the third year, Mike Nistler is opening his locally beloved "lilac labyrinth" at Boomerville Lodge to the public, hoping to attract lilac lovers who also have ...

Rochester, N.Y. — The 126th annual Lilac Festival kicks off Friday at Highland Park, and new security measures will be in place. All bags at the festival, which runs through May 19, will be ...

Using a small flightless stick insect as a model, a Utah State University scientist is seeking answers to big questions about ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Check out marching bands and parade floats of local students during the Junior Lilac Parade this weekend in downtown Spokane. The annual parade kicks off a week of celebrations ...

From the first months that Brett Ashinoff was at Shrub Oak International School in New York, his parents felt uneasy about the residential school for students with autism. They worried that Brett ...