Japanese maples need to be watered three times a week to stay healthy, but now in May is also the perfect time to prepare the ...

Japanese maples are beautiful trees that can bring a touch of the orient to your garden, but they require specific care to ...

If your backyard experiences dry spells, embracing drought-tolerant trees is a fantastic choice. Their ability to thrive even ...

Almost everything is fresh to a five year old: the dandelion growing through the sidewalk crack or the swarm of ants ...

Clockwise: Michael Greenstein examines the bark of a Chinese elm in his collection in Los Altos; A liquidambar, also known as ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

If you're thinking of adding a street tree out front, Penn State urban forester Vincent Cotrone has some recommendations.

Note: This piece was originally written in February 2025 When I first arrived at Swarthmore, I couldn’t stop taking pictures. It was August, and the whole ...

At the base of a 100-year-old maple tree a clump of moss has established ... which is the grey-green on the bark in spots around the moss. ANDREW MESSINGER This is Sphagnum moss growing in a ...

Mike McGroarty, a gardener and founder of Mike's Backyard Nursery, has warned that most garden fertilisers can kill your Japanese Maple tree, so it is important to be very cautious about what you ...