Q: Bill, on the bark of my Crepe Myrtles, I noticed grayish growth. I can peel this growth off fairly easily. What is this growth and is it hurting my tree? A: It sounds like you have lichens. Lichens ...

READERS HAVE WRITTEN enough letters of general interest lately to make a column. A Bellevue man expresses his frustration trying to make sense of the soil pyramid chart that was part of my Dec. 19 ...

“Moreover, documentation of the location of the lichens is ongoing,” Alireza Askari-Chaverdi said. “Lichens are one of the most damaging factors to historical buildings, especially stone monuments.

As the early morning sunlight lasers over the horizon, autumn tumbles in amid flurries of fluttering leaves, glowing golden, orange-y, and scarlet. Fall has arrived, yet the weather remains quite warm ...