Sometimes by this time in February, the hellebores planted many years ago in a flower bed are showing buds, but that hasn’t ...

When you've always known deciduous trees to drop their leaves in winter, seeing one that hasn't can be unsettling. Here's why trees may hold onto their leaves.

Learning to spot just a few of our most common trees, like the english oak, silver birch, or white willow, is great start. Here are the leaves of an english oak, for example… Image caption ...

In my front yard, the brown leaves of witch hazel hang on even as the buds are preparing to open into blooms. At Lakewood Forest Preserve near Wauconda, a shingle oak tree stands in the parkway ...

At the beginning of autumn, stop watering until the leaves fall from the trees. Once they fall, water your trees up until the ground freezes so they will have enough water to make it through the ...