Among the oaks, white, red and bur oak all stand tall as ecological heavyweights. Their acorns feed wildlife, their canopies ...

A conspicuous new sight on one of our recent daily walks past a neighbor’s property is a spider web of plastic tubes ...

The bark of a tree is its own protection against the weather. While we shrug on a coat when it’s wet or cold, a tree will grow its own to insulate itself, keeping moisture out when it’s ...

People are ready to put down roots. So here’s a look at eight trees that are — for better or worse — popularly planted in ...

Bundles of maple arrive in tiny Amasa, Michigan – a 2 1/2-hour drive north of Green Bay, Wisconsin — more than a year ahead of time. By then, it will have gone through processing mills to remove bark ...

Not so for local environmental activists, however, whose cries to save the trees echo well past a parcel’s sale ... Many Indigenous individuals frequently gather cedar bark, berries, medicinal plants, ...

This soft scale feeds on crabapple, sweetgum, star magnolia, honey locust, maple ... activity on host trees. Crawlers settle near the veins of foliage and begin to feed until they move back to twigs ...

The sugar maple, with its blazing fall colours and syrupy legacy, remains a favourite. It’s not just a beautiful shade tree, ...

If you want to plant a new tree ... maple (Acer griseum), which will grow in zones 4 through 8. The exfoliating bark is red to purple and curls up as it peels back but remains on the tree rather than ...

This tree grows 60 feet ... It boasts silvery bark and three-lobed leaves that turn bright yellow, orange, or red in fall. My favorite selection for the South, 'October Glory,' turns brilliant scarlet ...

Sapsuckers are well-known for their work in the spring chiseling rows of holes in the bark of sugar maple (and other ... by looking for wet or black streaks on tree bark or actually seeing the ...