Have you ever sat beneath the branches of a stately weeping willow in full bloom in late winter? Or have you ever taken in ...

Which Fruit Trees Are Best for Beginners? If you're just starting out with gardening, you might be wondering: Which fruit ...

People have been celebrating the summer solstice with elaborate rituals since prehistoric times. But humans aren’t the only ...

Even though trees can look dead in the winter, they’re probably just dormant. The dormancy period begins in the fall when leaves changes colors and fall off the trees and lasts through all of ...

Even though trees can look dead in the winter, they’re probably just dormant. The dormancy period begins in the fall when leaves changes colors and fall off the trees and lasts through all of ...

Fruit trees are especially susceptible to this “winter sunscald” trunk injury. Winter wind is also potentially damaging, and plants don’t like howling winds any better than humans do.

Drought is an extended time with little to no precipitation and can slow growth, reducing photosynthesis, and depleting energy reserves trees need to survive dormancy in winter. Drought conditions can ...

During severe winter weather, wildlife can rapidly use up the fat they gained through the summer and fall. Fortunately for wildlife, the nutritious box elder seeds hang on the tree all through ...

Nothing lifts a garden’s mood quite like the burst of bright yellow blooms—even when the skies are gray. Yellow flowering ...

Fruit trees, rhodies and many other plants, thrive with a July pruning. As the heat and drought of July crescendos, you may notice that spring’s tender new growth has turned into summer’s ...

But when trees are out of sync, seed loss can increase to over 40%. For decades we have known that beech mast events happen in the year after a warm summer. These warmer temperatures trigger an ...