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

Butterflies might get all the credit for being the pretty ones, but moths can definitely share the spotlight. Some of these ...

It was the end of an exciting day of nature photography and as I pulled into my driveway I figured that I was done for the ...

It wasn’t until the 1960s and ‘70s when interest in Japanese gardens began to develop. These special maples again caught the ...

"They converted all of the maple sap into maple sugar, which they could store in their birch bark containers ... that sap is changing to get ready to put buds and leaves on the trees and that reflects ...

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 ...

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 ...

We recently returned from a trip to Virginia to visit family and spent time being “Leaf Peepers.” There’s something magical ...

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 ...