Among the world's many ornamental trees, few species capture the essence of beauty and grace quite like the weeping cherry tree. With its cascading branches adorned with delicate blossoms, the weeping ...

Weeping cherries are one of the most-requested nursery trees, and one of the least understood. They also have a very high failure rate; after dogwoods they are our highest warranty cost item. We like ...

"Read ‘em and weep," the poker players say. People who plant a weeping tree in their yard certainly won’t cry. Rather, weeping trees with their long drooping branches add a note of peace and ...

An accent tree completes the whole picture of your landscape. When placed strategically, it helps to blend a dominant feature of a house, an exposed building or landscape feature with the rest of the ...

I have an established weeping cherry blossom tree in my front yard (west facing). It appears to have had better days. I think the drought a couple of summers ago damaged it. We lost one of its large ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Growing an ethereal garden you want to look at every day requires one crucial component: variety. While a ...

As I drive around town I keep seeing flowering cherry trees in bloom in landscapes. Every time I see one, I want to stop and take a picture, they are just so beautiful. There are numerous varieties of ...

John Robertson sent the little e-mail to his Butchers Hill neighbors, just to make sure he wasn’t losing his mind. “Has anyone else noticed the three trees on the 2200 block of Baltimore Street that ...

Spring is Act I of nature's most colorful show. Trees are flowering everywhere, and we live in an area that is host to many varieties of trees, which is why the show is so spectacular. When one group ...

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A small peach tree shows off its flowers for Gary Popp, superintendent of Lake View Memorial Gardens. The Fairview Heights cemetery has several kinds of flowering spring trees. Maureen Houston ...