When it comes to trees, we live in a blessed place, with more varieties of trees, shrubs, and vines than anywhere in the ...

Quiz: Can you identify this tree from its leaf? Do you think you have a good handle on identifying trees by merely looking at their leaves? Do you know the difference between coniferous and deciduous, ...

The beauty of paying attention to the plants around us is that we are forever discovering something new. Just the other day I was taking a walk down a neighborhood street with whose flora I thought I ...

The sky was gray. Rain seeped from low clouds throughout the afternoon. A nearly 300-year-old osage orange tree stood tall ...

The signs are already here: scarlet flashing on sumac shrubs, a reddish tinge in some kinds of maples, yellow leaves beginning to flutter down. The colors are telling us fall is here. Typically, the ...