I trimmed my boxwood shrubs at home this past weekend and the whir of my hedge trimmer lulled me into thinking about the plethora of questions I routinely receive from gardeners and homeowners about ...
In 2017, 70-year-old Joseph Leon Edminster pleaded guilty to cutting off the tops of thousands of trees in Minnesota’s Chippewa National Forest. A headline related to a multi-year scheme that ...
There is a potential spruce and pine tree pest problem creeping up on the Miami Valley area and people aren’t really noticing it yet. The suspicious pest is the white pine weevil which attacks pines ...
Pick a tree — any tree — and try to describe it using only 8 words--in Latin. That's what botanist Thomas Walter did in 1788, after studying and then naming this tree. His eight words (see below) ...
Pine needles are high in vitamins and minerals, particularly Vitamin C. The early Americans and Indians used pine needle tea throughout the winter to maintain strength, and taught settlers how to use ...
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — When searching for a Christmas tree to bring home this year, you may face a decline in spruce trees across Indiana as a sickness is causing them to lose their glow. Spruce ...
Lush, sprawling forests, trails littered with cones and the clean, waxy smell of evergreens in the crisp morning air: Colorado. This state is known for its towering lodgepole pines, pale blue spruces ...
Right now the tree that will soon rise from Millennium Park smothered in thousands of lights looks like a giant version of something you might use to scrub the gunk from a shower drain. But behold ...
GAYLORD — When the Wegrecki family lost their son, Keith, nearly 20 years ago, they planted blue spruce pine trees in his honor, and this Christmas, they have donated one of the trees for use as the ...