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… ...

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 Uganda, designers are trying to revive interest in a cloth people there have been wearing for the past 600 or more years. “Bark cloth” is made from just that, the inner bark of the mutuba ...

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 ...