The benefits of trees are abundant. Trees filter the air, produce oxygen, save energy, preserve water, and provide shade and even food. It's easy to take them for granted, since there's one on every ...

Ginkgo tolerates a wide range of rough conditions such as downtown urban sites, smoky areas, air pollution and confined root system spaces. Howard Garrett / Special Contributor I have one of the ...

The National Cherry Blossom Festival kicks off this month, but those colorful petals are hardly DC’s only notable foliage. Here are some other interesting trees to check out. There are no trees on the ...

Considered a must-have decoration for many who celebrate Christmas and open gifts with loved ones each year, the Christmas tree's interesting history most likely dates back at least two millennia.

As tree questions go, the ones I’ve assembled today don’t rank very high. But I’ll betcha they’re questions you’ve asked yourself, and they might make for a little fun reading here in mid-summer. Not ...

When is being contorted and twisted a good thing? When you’re a cherry, mulberry, willow, elm or one of the other unusual deciduous tree species that makes a wonderful, eye-catching specimen in the ...

Do you like trees? Of course you do! Yesterday, the City Council’s parks committee held a hearing on New York City’s street trees. Here are some fun facts about trees. 3. It takes a lot of work to ...