In the early fall Mother Nature sets up her easel. With broad, wide strokes her brushes color the maple, birch and cherry trees in the forest, mixing them together so perfectly. When the sun shines on ...

The tamarack, or eastern larch, is a deciduous evergreen tree that sheds its needles in the fall, only to regrow them the following spring, forming a whorl at the end of the twig, which makes ...

Tamarack or eastern larch (Larix laricina; Mélèze laricin) is coniferous native, deciduous tree whose range spans from Canadian coast to coast and can be found in every province/territory, as well as ...

Eastern larch beetles, tiny burrowing bugs native to Minnesota, are exploding in number across the state's northern forest and have killed or damaged about a third of the state's tamarack trees — one ...

To paraphrase Monty Python, "Behold the larch!" It certainly stands out among all other trees in our region for its beauty, its habitat and its unique habit of shedding its needles every autumn. In ...

Back on Oct. 1, sumac trees were ablaze, lighting the landscape with their bright crimson leaves, and other deciduous trees were just starting to change colour, with only about a 25-30 per cent change ...

Larix laricina, commonly known as the tamarack, hackmatack eastern larch, black larch, red larch, or American larch, is a species of larch native to Canada, from eastern Yukon and Inuvik, Northwest ...

As November comes to a close, we find ourselves just three weeks away from the official arrival of winter. Many of us have seen our first snowflakes already, and last week, we had a wintry mix that ...

Q: I had a good chuckle this morning and thought I would share! I cut redtwig dogwood about a month ago so I could fashion a twig support for my amaryllis. To my surprise, the dogwood has not only ...

Eastern larch beetles, tiny burrowing bugs native to Minnesota, are exploding in number across the state's northern forest and have killed or damaged about a third of the state's tamarack trees — one ...

Tamarack trees in northwestern Ontario are slowly falling under threat from the eastern larch beetle — a bug native to the region. A professor of forest entomology at the University of Minnesota said ...