Tree seedlings sit ready for sale at a nursery. Photo courtesy Getty Images. With longer days, warmer weather and wildflowers coming into bloom, spring is typically the time of year when people start ...

Although most trees can planted throughout the growing season, some are best planted in spring to ensure they get a strong start. Both your climate and the tree's characteristics play a part in making ...

Nothing signals the changing of the seasons like the sight of blossom in the garden. After the dark and cold months of winter ...

Two of my favorite spring plants, almost entirely based upon their progression from bud to leaf, are beech trees and false hellebore (a common wetland plant). I was thinking about why they are so ...

Spring Mill State Park was first established in 1927 and is sometimes called "a window" into Indiana's pioneer past. An original pioneer village still stands with a working grist mill that was ...

The southeast lost a lot of shade last year. It seems like adding insult to injury, when, after the massive recovery from bad storms is finally completed, we are left with relentless, scorching, ...

As winter fades (quite rapidly this year) and spring emerges, trees undergo a fascinating transformation, signaling a new cycle of life. During winter, trees lie dormant, conserving energy and waiting ...

If you've caught sight of those stunning, petite, white-flowered trees this spring, you're witnessing one of the most dazzling spectacles of the season: the fringe trees. Every spring, I receive a ...

Spring is here, but the signs of spring are slow to come. Most of the woodland wildflowers have yet to push up through the leaf litter on the forest floor. However, there are two early bloomers, ...

It’s nice to look around outside and once again see green instead of brown. The green is a combination of trees putting out leaves and others covered with flower buds. If you have a good tree ...