One way you can tell for how many centuries a plant name has been part of the common vernacular is to realize just how often that name has been used, and the widely disparate types of plants that a ...

Deer jump over the short picket fence at Greg Brezinski’s Yorktown home and devour his ivy but ignore the juniper and take only small, insignificant bites of the Otto Luyken laurel. Down the road, Jim ...