Every garden is a thing of beauty in the growing seasons — spring bulbs, summer flowers and fall foliage all carry on with extravagance. But winter is coming, so the colorful garden superstar… ...

Cedric's pictures look like fine art, with the close-ups showing the differences in colour, shape and texture of tree bark around the world. Picture: A Rainbow Eucalyptus in Fairchild Tropical ...

The inner bark of the tree, which is rich in fibrous material, produces high-quality paper. Cheng has been turning the tree bark into paper in the last seven years. She has to go through a long ...

In addition to the texture of a tree's bark, you can also pay close attention to the color and shade of a tree in order to identify it. Once you start looking, you'll find there's a lot more than ...

These trees feature bark with bright colors and compelling textures: *American beech (Fagus grandifolia); Zones 4-8. *European beech (Fagus sylvatica); Zones 4-7.

The bark of a young red oak is smooth and shiny, later becoming rough and corrugated. European white birch goes through several stages, from shiny brown bark to white, and, finally, showing dark ...

Trees develop their characteristic barks as the trunk circumference grows. The dead outer bark can't grow, and so it gives way. Beech bark (Fagus spp.) is flexible, so it stretches and expands.

Gardener: Tree-bark colors, textures ready for their close-up. ... Fortunately, that's when one of the most overlooked features, tree bark, comes out for its season in the spotlight.

Gardener: Tree-bark colors, textures ready for their close-up. ... Fortunately, that's when one of the most overlooked features, tree bark, comes out for its season in the spotlight.

Trees develop their characteristic barks as the trunk circumference grows. The dead outer bark can't grow, and so it gives way. Beech bark (Fagus spp.) is flexible, so it stretches and expands. Black ...