Avocados are notoriously hard to grow particularly in heavy soil (clay). This video shows a great example of how to plant an avocado tree in heavy clay and keep it from dying due to root rot or other ...

I always add mulch to my trees to help retain moisture, but according to landscaping experts, I’ve been doing it all wrong.

In the humid, storm-prone South (like Mississippi), decay visibly dead pine trees will fall relatively quickly. Fungal rot and insects weaken roots and trunk, so a pine may fall within a couple of ...

Mark Harmon crouches low next to log number 219: a moss-covered western hemlock tree trunk, five meters long, lying dead on ...

Trees are stunning focal points in landscaping, towering over plants basking in the dappled sunlight under their branches. They offer temperature-reducing shade under their canopies, and when placed ...

Forest ecologist Mark Harmon has been exhaustively examining dead logs for 40 years, and he’s found a complex world few ...

LAUREL, De – Trap Pond State Park has a lot of history and it is Delaware’s first state park, home to the bald cypress tree. Trap Pond State Park started out as a logging site in the ...

Trees are indeed a way to cool our cities, as Carlo Ratti writes (Opinion, August 21). However, an urban tree’s root system has to survive when faced with the challenges of concrete, plumbing, ...

Tree seeds from Hiroshima have been planted - and taken root - in Leicester to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender after the Second World War. Hiroshima was one of two Japanese cities that ...

An elderly couple have been ordered to chop down a 250-year-old tree or face a £70,000 bill after its roots 'damaged a vicarage' in a historic Cotswolds village. Richard and Melanie Gray, from Lower ...

A NSW timber mill has been forced to cut staff because of a lack of logs, despite 50,000 trees being cleared and dumped to make way for transmission lines. The Pentarch Mill at Nowra last week cut 12 ...

In 1835, the Mexican government had set aside 1,400 acres pueblo land for public recreation, which is now part of Balboa Park. Take a trip to Pepper Grove and unwind for a while. (Photos by Cynthia G.