Ilex or Holly are some of the best, most robust shrubs and trees for gardeners with cold winters. These high performing, low maintenance shrubs tend to be very deer resistant and able to withstand ...

What started as a small, scraggly tree tucked beneath a bridge has grown into a Christmas tradition that residents admire as ...

OMP resident Tom Dalluge is devoted to saving, nurturing and growing American chestnuts on the Old Mission Peninsula.

Originally from Albuquerque, N.M., Lynn and Becky Minder began working on what they call Casa Becca del Norté after realizing ...

Acorn woodpeckers live in family groups and spend winter tending their stash and defending it from thieves. Come spring, they’ll shift to insects and oak flowers, but in winter, acorns fuel their ...

In anticipation of a hotter, drier climate, foresters across the Pacific Northwest have been testing new species of trees.

Christmas trees are grown as a farm crop. It takes several growing seasons before a Christmas tree is ready to harvest.

Changes to the region’s climate mean consumers have some new choices at the tree farm that are more suitable for hotter, drier summers.

Plants that drop all their leaves at one time and enter a leafless, dormant state are called deciduous. In climates that ...

An eight-foot Christmas tree takes 7 to 10 years to grow from seed. At Arrowhead Acres in Uxbridge, those trees spend the first two years of their lives as seedlings gathered in small pots. And caring ...

Maine's small Christmas Tree growers say their sales are up this season, despite an exceptionally wet spring, a severe ...

When I was little, a million years ago now, my mother decided to have a so-called decorator Christmas tree. It only had weird white Styrofoam balls with red bows on them and white lights, and was a ...