which can host the disease. You can also, of course, look for alternatives to boxwood, but finding a shrub with similar traits is a tall order. The most common option is the Japanese holly (Ilex ...

Japanese holly (Ilex crenata) is a dense evergreen shrub with tiny, rounded, dark green leaves. At a glance, it may be ...

Those of you who grow boxwoods, particularly the American type (although the English and Japanese are susceptible as well), may have seen damage caused by an insect called boxwood leafminer.

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

By Laura Allen N.C. Cooperative Extension It’s the perfect time of the year to think about your landscape and the approaching ...

Tougher, more resilient grasses and better ways to fend off crabgrass and other weeds and pests should make it easier than ever to get a lush, healthy lawn. So why do so many people still have ...

Japanese is a language isolate, spoken by 121 million people in Japanese archipelago. There are small Japanese communities in American Samoa, Hawaii, North and South ...

Japan adopts Chinese written characters. Shotoku Taishi (574-622) begins to shape Japanese society and government more after the pattern of China. He seeks centralization of government and a ...

The Japanese language has three types of characters: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana are phonetic symbols, each representing one syllable while Kanji is ideogram, each stand ...

Japanese skin care products marry tradition with constant innovation, focusing on ways to maintain the integrity of the skin with gentle formulas rather than target concerns with a barrage of actives.

Middleburg is a charming country town about an hour outside of D.C. filled with scenic wineries, breweries, boutiques, and a ...