Besides its branches, roots, and leaves, a mature tree also grows ... Naturalist Roger Tory Peterson says that unlike the precise silhouette of birds, a tree is not so consistent in form or ...

Two fruit trees are notable for changing their leaf color before falling ... completing its picturesque silhouette enhanced by unusual gray to blackish bark. Finally, if you should be selecting ...

meteorologically speaking and the leaves have all been shed and swept up. We've had an abundance of beautiful frosty pictures this week but I just love these ones of trees in silhouette form ...

Hickory trees have a leaf with less than nine leaflets and an alternate leaf arrangement. There's always a terminal leaf with three end or top leaflets that's distinctly larger than basal or ...

We also noticed a 3-foot-tall shagbark hickory that was holding onto its leaves, which can occur in younger trees. My sister’s Japanese maple is awash with brown curly leaves, even in February.

Please! See, I even asked nicely. Winter arrived so quickly that first weekend of last November that the trees hadn’t finished losing their leaves and most of us hadn’t finished raking up fall ...

You know you’ve seen them this time of year: Those lone trees still clinging to their fall-hued leaves, shamelessly sticking out from their naked neighbors in a winter-white forest or in the ...