Regardless of whether you grow a Japanese maple (Acer palmatum) with an upright or weeping habit, its colorful fall foliage ...

“Trees, our largest and most long-lived plants, shut down food production in preparation for the winter drought. But the hardwoods don’t quietly sulk into dormancy like skunks and groundhogs; they ...

Purple leaves emerge in spring and fade into their ruby coloring as temperatures get warmer, then stay red throughout most of the summer and fall. 'Bloodgood' Japanese maple trees are the perfect ...

Q: I’d like to plant a tree this fall in an area that was formerly a gravel driveway. The gravel goes down about 8 inches. The clay-ey soil beneath it doesn’t seem terribly compacted.

In the fall, the leaves turn red again: it's one of our nicest species for autumn color. Additionally, this species, which is related to the famous sugar maple, has itself been used as a source of ...

Have you ever sat beneath the branches of a stately weeping willow in full bloom in late winter? Or have you ever taken in ...

Japanese Maple is the perfect tree to bring a little unexpected and lovely transformation to your spring garden designs.

You can get fall color here with maple trees, ... Green stems turn red in winter, ... If the roots stay too wet during the intense heat of mid- to late-summer, root rot may kill the tree.

You may think of the robin as the first sign of spring. But if you have a taste for maple syrup, you may think of collecting sap from a sugar maple tree. Sugar maple trees produce sap during the ...

Maple syrup is famously made in spring, when below-freezing nights followed by warm days cause the sap stored in a sugar maple’s trunk to flow up and out of the tree and into buckets or plastic ...

As with summer types, I succession-sow these, starting in July for fall, then sowing batches right through to October under cover, which means I have these fresh salad greens right through to spring.

There is something about spring that sends people to the garden center, full of hope, to buy shrubs and trees. I’m here to convince you that fall is a better time to plant most trees and shrubs.