Many years ago, before attending graduate school and undergoing a deep dive into the world of plants, I had been known to select the wrong tree for the wrong place on more than one occasion. The ...

Walk into Wilkes University’s Sordoni Art Gallery and look to your left. Your eyes will be drawn to Susanne Slavick’s larger-than-life painting of tree limbs wrapped in bandages.

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

A weeping willow and American beech tree will be planted the day of the ceremony, but 13 trees overall — three more weeping willows, two eastern hemlock and one each of American hornbeam ...

Linda Lee Cermack Kocan is a lot of things. She’s a wife, a mother, a former beauty queen, an intellect, a philanthropist and ...

The trees are also messy, continually dropping leaves and sticks. Chalk this one up with the weeping willow: a fine tree in the country or along a waterway, but not necessarily in your yard.

After months of cold weather and drought, recent rain has brought nature back to life. Columnist Joyce Bupp reflects on the ...

"When daily average temperatures exceed 15 C for at least three consecutive days and sunlight lasts more than six hours, female poplar and willow trees release large amounts of catkins," he said.

Walled gardens, or ‘secret garden’ areas with neatly trimmed, low-cut boxwood and water features, created with privacy and relaxation in mind, are also common. The idea is that not all of the land is ...

Some homes date to the 1600s; others are far more recent. Ancient trees, modern conservation techniques, and acres of flowers ...