I used to have three large Japanese maples that heeded the call to procreate very successfully. If it wasn't for me, there would be thousands of seedlings growing all over North Portland, and probably ...

Since every plant is a wildflower somewhere, one of the pluses for traveling gardeners is the opportunity to see plants in their native surroundings. Makes you realize why some of them are so ...

A garden trough used as a flower planter for 30 years has been identified as rare 2,000-year-old marble coffin worth over £100,000. The unsuspecting couple from Northumberland inherited the 6ft 9in ...

Trough gardening is one of the hottest trends in the country. At the store, these containers go by names like stock tank, feed trough, water trough and my choice, the horse trough. They might not ...

In October, I made my first hypertufa troughs from a mix of peat moss, perlite, Portland cement, and water. Extremely durable once they set up, the resulting containers look similar to carved stone.

Rough stone containers in the garden give the appearance of old age with their weathered look. But if these chipped, mossy and worn planters, known as troughs or sinks, are made of hypertufa, their ...

Abengoa Solar in early May began commercial operation of Solnova 1, the company’s first 50-MW parabolic trough plant. Covering 980,000 square feet with mirrors requiring an area totaling 280 acres ...