As you looked out the windows of your house this winter at all the dormant and barren deciduous trees in your landscape, perhaps you thought that a little green would be a nice addition this year. But ...

Cherry trees, like other stone fruit trees, require winter chill to induce flowering and ensure production. However, the ...

Do you know why the pine tree didn’t get a Christmas present? Because it was knotty. Speaking of evergreen humor, did you hear about the guy who drove through a forest and noticed lumberjacks sawing ...

If you want to be a true outdoorsman or woman, and a true survivor, you’ve got to become a plant person. I know, I know—it’s not as cool to walk around with your nose in a book as it is to sling lead ...

A warm, dry spring across El Paso County has left trees in distress and in some cases wearing the signs of several years of hardship. Evergreens display the battle scars of radical temperature swings, ...

For Atlanta painter Elizabeth Lang, winter is more than a season. It is a reset button. That idea shapes “Evergreen,” her landscape for this year’s Trees Atlanta holiday card program. The program ...

Evergreen foliage is common during the holidays, offering a wonderful opportunity to hone your plant identification skills. Evergreen foliage is common during the holidays, offering a wonderful ...

Don Kinzler helps a reader identify a plant that recently showed up in her garden and answers questions about browning evergreen foliage and whether to cut back ornamental grasses in the fall or ...

Nature classifies all trees into three main groups. Deciduous trees shed leaves seasonally. Evergreen trees remain green year-round. Coniferous trees reproduce using cones. These categories explain ...

As a kid, getting the Christmas tree, bringing it into the house, and setting it up was my favorite winter tradition. Heralding in the season was the significance of the ritual: The smell of the ...

Living Christmas trees are set out in pots for customers at Second Nature at Reads Creek plant nursery in Readstown, Wisconsin. Some tree farms in the central U.S. are selling more potted Christmas ...