The olive tree is one of the most iconic symbols of the Mediterranean basin, deeply intertwined with the region's history, economy, and culture. But how did this tree, originally a wild species, come ...

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Olive trees, to me, are an intrinsic part of the character, look and feel of the undulating landscape of the Mediterranean. Alongside grapevines, they’re everywhere in Italy, Spain, France, and ...

Photos by Marcia Westcott Peck/Special to The Oregonian/OregonLive Dennis: We've all heard the phrase "what’s old is new again," right? Well, in the case of the subject of this column, what’s really, ...

When my Palm Springs neighbor remodeled his front entry, he moved a mature olive tree to a better spot just ten feet away. I thought he was nuts doing it midsummer, but this experience proved to be ...

Speakers Suzanne Tobey, left, and Susanne McEwen, a Garden Club of Santa Barbara member, attend Monday’s celebration of new olive trees planted at Mission Historical Park. (Rochelle Rose / Noozhawk ...

City dwellers don't happen across such a pretty place all that often, in Los Angeles, California, or really anywhere else. For sure, parks, with their lush and varied treescapes and bounties of ...

Forty olive trees were planted in Barnsdall Park on Thursday, June 16, as part of an effort to restore the park’s historic olive grove. The 11.5-acre East Hollywood park includes the city’s only ...

The dwarf nana pomegranate is a small shrub that thrives in hotter climates, and will fit into your home as easily as a ...

When London-born neurosurgeon Judith M. Taylor and her ophthalmologist husband, Irvin, moved from New York to Marin in 1994 to retire, they settled into a Tiburon home with a garden that needed ...