Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In the past four decades, Michael Dirr has gone through untold numbers of size 13 hiking shoes in his treks through graveyards, mountain trails, college campuses and urban parks, to name a few of his ...

contain enough information for a 10-pound book, but you get to carry it around in a 5-ounce iPhone. With 9,400 plants and 7,600 photos, this is the most thorough garden app to be introduced in the ...

My favorite gardening app at the moment – and probably for many moments to come – is Actually, does a video game qualify as an app? I bought it at the app store, so I think it does. I taught my ...

At its 115th Honorary Medals Dinner on Oct. 16, at 6:30 p.m., the Massachusetts Horticultural Society will present to Dr. Michael Dirr, the foremost authority on trees and shrubs, Mass Hort’s highest ...

A couple of decades ago Dr. Michael Dirr was looking over his students on the first day of the class on woody landscape plants. He noted that one was Vince Dooley. Yes, Coach Vince Dooley, whose teams ...

So what does a 1970s British comedy troupe have in common with a professor of horticulture at the University of Georgia? Well, glad you asked. In one of the great comedy movies of all time, "Monty ...

Ch. 1. Characteristics, taxonomy, and nomenclature -- Ch. 2. Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris (climbing hydrangea) -- Ch. 3. Hydrangea arborescens (smooth ...

Elizabeth “Betty” Schmitt Dirr, beloved wife of Michael R. Dirr for 42 years; devoted mother of David (Monica) Dirr and Susan (Jill Gottke) Dirr; adoring grandmother of Caroline Dirr and Michael Dirr; ...