At the local greenhouse where I buy many of my spring bedding plants and vegetable starts, one of the most popular requests seems to be for okra. Do people like it for its tasty seed pods, or because ...

A. Your redbud tree (Cercis canadensis) is starting to reach maturity with seed production this year, and with the extra rain it has produced a large number of seed pods. There is nothing to worry ...

Editor's note: A reader wants to know more about Raintrees. In my neighborhood there's a tree with pretty yellow flowers blooming now that become red seed pods in the fall. I like it, and have been ...