Trees can have a huge impact on the environment, and, along with helping clean the air, they often hold a particular sentimental value, as well. From lazy afternoons picnicking under their shade, to ...

There’s no doubt about it. These past few years have been rough on our landscapes. With cautious optimism, I have been watching the rain fall this winter season and transform our reservoirs and ...

In the same vicinity is a corkscrew willow (Salix matsudana ‘Tortuosa’). It’s hard to miss: Look for the dramatic profile of contorted, intertwined, spiraling grey-brown branches. Among the more ...

Every garden is a thing of beauty in the growing seasons — spring bulbs, summer flowers and fall foliage all carry on with extravagance. But winter is coming, so the colorful garden superstars will ...

Mary Jo DiLonardo has worked in print, online, and broadcast journalism for 25 years and covers nature, health, science, and animals. Young trees sometimes have smooth bark that's unbroken by ridges.

For several years in the late 1960 and early 1970s, European white birch were trendy. Most lived in ubiquitous groups of three. Where three did not fit, a single multi trunk tree, typically with three ...

As tree questions go, the ones I’ve assembled today don’t rank very high. But I’ll betcha they’re questions you’ve asked yourself, and they might make for a little fun reading here in mid-summer. Not ...

When fall’s cold nights kill the flowers and cause so many of our trees and shrubs to drop their leaves, the bareness shines our focus on what’s left – for one thing, tree trunks. Trunks and their ...