The season of dazzling hillsides ablaze with vivid, colorful, autumnal foliage is all but over. There may be three more weeks before the winter solstice, but already most of our trees are showing ...

In two past columns I featured the bald cypress, which is a tree most often found in the deep southern United States. Its area extends northward into southern Indiana and Illinois. In Indiana it is ...

The tamarack, or eastern larch, is a deciduous evergreen tree that sheds its needles in the fall, only to regrow them the following spring, forming a whorl at the end of the twig, which makes ...

Q: I had a good chuckle this morning and thought I would share! I cut redtwig dogwood about a month ago so I could fashion a twig support for my amaryllis. To my surprise, the dogwood has not only ...

A common expression that we heard much of this year was how late the season was. We saw this repeatedly as the winter was reluctant to exit and the April snow showers lingered into May. Through the ...

Add it all up and pest outbreaks have left Minnesota with quite a lot of dead trees, useless lumber and dried-out and wasted stands, which, if left to rot, will become one large fire hazard. But there ...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Tamarack Marketplace in Beckley. This is thanks to the United Way of Southern West Virginia's 16th annual Wonderland of Trees, which kicks off this ...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Tamarack Marketplace in Beckley. This is thanks to the United Way of Southern West Virginia’s 16th annual ...