PPL won't let trees stand in its way

  Trees and electrons don't mix.People in the East and Midwest learned that the hard way in 2003 when branches shorted out an Ohio power line, triggering the nation's largest electrical blackout.Mother Nature taught her most recent followup lesson last year with a rare Halloween weekend snowsto...

A fresh crop of catalogs can spark garden dreams

Garden catalogs are more than pages and pages of pretty pictures for casual enjoyment.

Think spring: It's time for a fresh crop of gardening catalogs

Garden catalogs are more than pages and pages of pretty pictures for casual enjoyment.

Master Gardeners | Anticipate, prepare for your spring garden

"One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides." -- W.E. Johns, "The Passing Show." Order your seeds now. If you don't have enough seed catalogs, borrow some from a friend or go online and search for "garden seeds and plants."

Nancy Szerlag: Dream of warm, sunny days with plant catalogs

For me, plant catalogs are rays of warm summer sunshine on cold, gray wintry days.