For whatever reason, my office has seen an explosion of homeowners bringing in branches covered in cottony maple scale. I ...

Trees are not static fixtures. They are dynamic, changing, living beings.” That is how I closed my previous column on tree ...

Have you ever paused beneath a towering oak or maple and wondered if that rough, gnarled bark is hiding secrets? What if I ...

We have a problem with our lone Japanese Maple tree in our front flower bed. We think it has a fungus, and we're not really ...

Keeping your Japanese maple tree hydrated can be tricky, but one natural solution can help retain moisture, keep the leaves vibrant, and even suppress weeds. By Katherine McPhillips 13:52, Sat ...

This tree grows 60 feet tall and 40 feet wide with a loosely pyramidal shape. It boasts silvery bark and three-lobed leaves that turn bright yellow, orange, or red in fall. My favorite selection for ...

Silver maples are a soft maple, with less resistance to external factors like fungal infections. Pruning wounds allow fungi and other biotic factors to weaken the tree’s structural integrity and ...

UK oak trees are home to over 700 types of lichen, with the fissured bark of mature oaks providing a perfect micro-habitat. The oak moss covering this tree is an air quality indicator. Where it grows, ...

Green bark is found on trees and shrubs of many different, unrelated species. In Australia, young bottle trees of Queensland forest and scrubland have green bark that turns dark with age.

American maple syrup almost went extinct. In 1993, sugar makers in New York State, the second-largest producer in the U.S. behind Vermont, made only 180,000 gallons of syrup.

Perhaps it’s displaying the weeping form of soft-needled cypress leaves, or the spiraling trunk of a bluish cedar. Maybe it’s the papery bark of a maple or the bloom of a magnolia species that ...