Purchase trees from a local nursery and plant between spring and early fall. Tulip trees do best in a sunny spot that has ...

Looking for relief from the sun? These seven fast-growing shade trees are perfect for creating a cooler, more comfortable backyard in a short time.

Trees with especially unique leaves include ginkgo, sassafras, yellow poplar, and mulberry. Here, we explore the various classifications that foresters study when identifying trees by leaf shapes.

This is the time of year when, at the end of dusk, the dim Little Dipper, or the Litter Bear, floats straight upward from Polaris, which is the bright star at the tip of the handle. Look due north to ...

Deciduous trees shed their leaves annually, losing around 40 percent of the carbon they have assimilated, and substantial amounts of nutrients in the process. But they do not have to be lost ...

An apple may not fall far from the tree, but for a leaf, it depends on its shape. Elm or apple leaves — oval and symmetrical, with few protruding lobes — fall quickly, making them likely to ...

Besides its branches, roots, and leaves, a mature tree also grows another important structure—the flower (or cone, in the case of evergreens). Flowers are the reproductive structures from which ...

Japanese maple trees are beautiful deciduous trees that produce delicately shaped leaves, providing wonderful texture and color in the landscape. These trees are long-lived, on the shorter side, and ...

These trees go bare because in winter’s harshness, leaves can’t store enough energy to make up for the water a tree loses through them. And by letting go of their foliage on their own schedule ...

Lombardy poplar is a variety of black poplar. Its leaves are diamond shaped or almost triangular, uniformly green in summer, then turning bright yellow before falling in autumn. A male clone, it only ...