Home/Garden Notes: Gardening series focuses on native plants, pollinators

Penn State Master Gardeners of Allegheny County will present a fall Backyard Gardening Lecture Series from 9 a.m. to noon next Saturday at Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve on Dor-seyville Road in Fox Chapel. This fall's event will focus on native plants and pollinators.

Gardening Tips: Labor Day weekend, from a gardening viewpoint

Labor Day weekend generally marks the last weekend of the summer vacation season. Next week the kids will be heading back to school and some seasonal residents will be beginning to close up their summer homes.

Gardening Q & A: Scorched leaves caused by salts

Some plants tolerate more salts than others, but all plants have a maximum tolerance.

Gardening Tips: Lessons about life that trees teach us

1.) Be firmly rooted in your particular place. Trees are not wishy-washy, nor are they easily pushed around or moved once they have become established. Some humans have these attributes, too. Together they are referred to as “integrity.”

Gardening tools stolen in Aylsham

Thieves have stolen gardening equipment and tools from a shed in Aylsham.