Trees play a central role in life on Earth. They store CO₂, provide habitats for animals, fungi, and insects, stabilize soils ...

Fast-growing trees can add character and color to your home's landscape relatively quickly, but those varieties often require full sun to add height so quickly. However, there are plenty of ...

Patience is a virtue, and many trees require it. "Trees, in general, live on a much longer timeline than we do, with many living for hundreds, and some even thousands of years," says Nancy Gaspari, an ...

Gardeners want fast-growing shade trees for privacy, especially after a tree is lost to old age or other factors. While it's true that fast-growing trees for shade provide quick beauty and seclusion, ...

Q. My 10-year-old mountain laurel died, and I miss the shade it provided for the northwest corner of my house. What trees can you recommend that will grow quickly and provide protection from the ...

The toll emerald ash borer is taking is easily seen on farmstead windbreaks and town boulevards across the country. Millions of ash trees have been lost since the borer, native to Russia and Asia, was ...

A city agency is replacing palms with oaks along key downtown streets. “We didn’t realize how expensive planting trees could be,” the director said.

The city of Sanibel’s Natural Resources Department reported that when people think of Florida, they often think of palm trees ...

Climate change, deforestation, and habitat loss are promoting increasingly uniform forests, where fast-growing tree species ...