Try some plants with standout bark to make things interesting after the leaves fall. Paperbark maple trees (Acer griseum) are ...

The bark of a tree is its own protection against the weather. While we shrug on a coat when it’s wet or cold, a tree will grow its own to insulate itself, keeping moisture out when it’s ...

This provides food so the trees can grow their leaves. It takes about four ... the European settlers how to make maple syrup. They would cut a gash in the tree and collect the sap in containers made ...

This provides food so the trees can grow their leaves. It takes about four ... the European settlers how to make maple syrup. They would cut a gash in the tree and collect the sap in containers made ...

At the edge of my meadow there stands a lone maple tree that is quite apart ... and they spend most of their time eating tree leaves and bark. In the winter they rely heavily on hemlock trees ...

After a long day of photographing wildlife, columnist Bill Danielson spots a porcupine munching on flower buds high in a ...

FAMED for their striking red, weeping, lacy leaves, Japanese maples ... especially for younger trees. Gardeners can protect the delicate Japanese maple by using horticultural fleece when the ...

The ancient trees are a signature of our place. Big-leaf maple (Acer macrophylla), a giant ... sometimes fissured or exfoliating bark, maples are a highlight in the winter garden, especially ...

The large maple tree stood closest to our backyard in a line of six trees marking a neighbor’s property line. It likely had been planted roughly 50 or so years ...