The notion of the desert as wasteland and simultaneously utopia fascinates architectural historian Luke Leuschner and causes him to chase after some seriously esoteric questions. The resultant mystery ...

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 ...

No Vacancy is a monthly feature showcasing the small hotels, motels and inns across the Coachella Valley. It’s been years since the little hotel on East Racquet Club Road on the north side of Palm ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do you ever find an animal that smears up sunscreen and uses it to shield itself? The waxy monkey tree frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor) has developed a remarkable survival method in the forests of the Gran ...