Trees can be identified in winter by observing their needles, bark, branching patterns, and buds. Distinctive bark, such as the smooth gray bark of a beech or the peeling white bark of a paper birch, ...

Training one’s eye to identify trees is a fun way to connect with the world around us and can be useful for making home landscape selections. Trees are often identified using leaf shape and color, ...

If you are looking for a tree with white bark for your garden or trying to identify a tree that you have recently seen, this page is designed to help. White-barked trees have an otherworldly beauty ...

Gardeners who limit their love to leaves and flowers are barking up the wrong tree. Sure, those ephemeral features are undeniably seductive, but their allure is limited to warmer months. In the ...

As emerald ash borer (EAB) infestation continues its march across the continent, Don Kinzler shares the distinctive identifying characteristics of an ash tree.

Q. We have a large sycamore tree in our yard. Every summer it sheds its bark over a few weeks’ time. I think as it grows it is growing new bark and losing the old bark. Am I correct? – J.C., Walton, ...

Winter time is somewhat of a downtime for deciduous trees. After a growing season's worth of beautiful foliage, culminating in the wonderful fall display of color, woody plants enter the long, cold ...

QUESTION: I'm concerned about an unusual pattern of debarking on three large sasanquas in one of our beds. There also are three old camellias in the bed that are unaffected. My first impression was ...

"Barking" up the right tree! Here's how an Australian team found that microbes found in tree bark may have a bigger influence on fighting climate change than we thought. 🌳🦠 ...