Lichens survive in a very wide range of habitats worldwide. Amazingly, more than 400 species can be found in Maryland.

My cherry tree has a problem. The bark is splitting and coming away. It has been looking fine with good foliage and flowers. What is the prognosis? Is there anything I can do? — Ed Bowne. I checked ...

A hungry beaver made a (hopefully) very tasty snack out of one of D.C.’s most treasured landmarks along the Tidal Basin: a cherry tree. When a Yoshino cherry blossom tree was found missing layers of ...

Do you know how to tell the difference between a birch and a cherry tree? You might be barking up the wrong tree if you don’t know about lenticels. I have been ...

A hungry beaver or perhaps multiple beavers have damaged at least 15 cherry trees at the Washington Tidal Basin near the Jefferson Memorial. Most of the damage is minor but two trees were girdled, ...

Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee says we can thank wildlife, especially birds, for the spread of wild black cherry trees. This tree-sized cherry tree has shiny, elongated leaves with finely ...

Just before the first snow, I went for a walk in the woods near our house. It’s a damp and mossy mixed wood full of the usual suspects: cedar, white pine, balsam, birch, beech, the occasional maple ...