Fall Color Larch trees amid other flora at Metolius Preserve, managed by Deschutes Land Trust. (Submitted photo/Wasim Muklashy) Western larches are stately trees, soaring 90 to nearly 200 feet tall, ...

I trimmed my boxwood shrubs at home this past weekend and the whir of my hedge trimmer lulled me into thinking about the plethora of questions I routinely receive from gardeners and homeowners about ...

Varieties of hazelnuts, which are also known as cobnuts and filberts, should be regularly pruned in dormancy to promote wood ...

One of my favorite excursions of the year is my AP Environmental Science class field trip up Blue Job Mountain in Farmington, N.H. The purpose of this field trip is to collect data about a variety of ...

RHS chief horticulturist Guy Barter shares the plants that benefit from a late-autumn tidy — and which ones to leave until ...

RHS chief horticulturist Guy Barter shares the plants that benefit from a late-autumn tidy — and which ones to leave until spring.

Nature classifies all trees into three main groups. Deciduous trees shed leaves seasonally. Evergreen trees remain green year ...

After a few years of watching and waiting for a peach tree I planted to bear fruit, it finally did this year. Unfortunately, it was unable to produce during those first few years because of peach leaf ...

A well-cared for tree requires some pruning, whether to enhance its natural shape to reveal its character; to control its size in relation to its surroundings; to increase or control flower and fruit ...

This young swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor) has retained its leaves while the maples on either side have already dropped theirs. Many of our native oaks keep their leaves all winter as young trees.

Questions: What is the optimum combination of image dates across a growing season for tree species differentiation in multi-spectral data and how does species composition affect overstorey canopy ...