To borrow, perhaps dubiously, from Shakespeare, what’s in a name? After all, a rose by any other name would smell as sweet and, maybe, a monkey puzzle tree by another moniker would still be as ...

How the Monkey Puzzle Tree found its way to Elizabeth Park was, well, a puzzle. “It’s been in our greenhouse for 30 years; we have no idea when it came here. Nobody has any history,” Kathy Kraczkowsky ...

The ancient monkey puzzle tree has distinctive spiny leaves and intricate scaly branches. Its unusual features, scientists believe, evolved as a defense against towering, long-necked dinosaurs.

Truth be told, the tree had stayed long past its welcome. Jody Grage planted the conifer 15 years ago outside her Ballard home, a quirky gift from her teenage son, who promised to take the tree when ...

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The other day I scoured Tree House Brewing Co.’s website, thirsty for something new to add to my quarantine-survival kit. I ignored the beer, looking for the jigsaw puzzles. Yes, Tree House has been ...