Some trees are remarkable simply because of how long they have been standing. The monkey puzzle tree, known scientifically as ...

This Gardening News column is from the online archives of The Star of North Augusta, a collection of more than 25,000 articles published from October 2007 to February 2022. Last month I wrote about ...

A tree covered in over 80 soft monkeys has become a landmark in a small village. When Julia Winn of Snoll Hatch Road in East Peckham hung a toy monkey on her tree in 2022, she had no idea it marked ...

To borrow, perhaps dubiously, from Shakespeare, what’s in a name? After all, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet and, maybe, a monkey puzzle tree by another moniker would still be as ...

How the Monkey Puzzle Tree found its way to Elizabeth Park was, well, a puzzle. “It’s been in our greenhouse for 30 years; we have no idea when it came here. Nobody has any history,” Kathy Kraczkowsky ...

A monkey at the top of a tree in Africa seemed to have no way of escaping a leopard that had climbed halfway up the tree and was closing in. But the monkey had a clever plan. The monkey outsmarted the ...