As spring approached last year, I decided to write an article about the smoke tree, one of my favorite “highway trees”. I ...

Blossoming across the eastern U.S. in spring, redbud trees were notably important during the settlement of the Appalachian ...

Wikipedia says it’s “found primarily in Northern California, with other populations in parts of Utah and Arizona.” The map ...

The branches of some spring-flowering trees and shrubs can be pruned and coaxed to bloom indoors. Forsythia, pussy willow, serviceberry, crabapple, magnolia, redbud ... begin to swell in late ...

clothing almost every inch in bloom. Eastern redbud is in the Fabaceae (legume) family, so the fruits are brown to black pods typical of that family. When planted as a specimen, patio or lawn tree ...