Planting large and luscious trees at home isn't only for those with their own gardens. Plant trees in pots and they can move ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Opposite leaves are just what they sound like: the leaves, whether simple or ...

In elementary school, most of us learned the basic differences between deciduous and coniferous trees. Deciduous trees have leaves that change color and drop in the fall, and coniferous trees have ...

Editor's note: This is part one of a 3-part series on deciduous trees and shrubs. The word 'deciduous' means falling off at maturity or tending to fall off (deriving from the Latin word decidere, to ...

We look for the first hints of fall in October, but it's not until late November and early December, that we really begin to see leaves change color and commence to fall. Once it starts, it seems the ...

If you are thinking of planting deciduous fruit trees, now is the time to plan for this project. In the coming weeks, bare-root deciduous fruit trees will be arriving in nurseries. Unfortunately, in ...

Fully ripe and out of reach, the best fruit appears to grow in the top of the tree. Gardeners too short to gather the harvest will find little help from dwarf trees, but can bring the crop down to eye ...

Fire is a hot topic these days, particularly when it comes to the boreal forest, the vast expanse of trees that stretches across Alaska, Canada and other cold northern regions. Large fires have been ...

Australia has hardly any native deciduous trees. Why do we mostly have evergreens? Is it too hot for deciduous trees to have evolved, or is there another reason? There are only a few trees native to ...

More severe and frequent fires in the Alaskan boreal forest are emitting vast stores of carbon, but new research from shows those losses are offset by the fast-growing deciduous trees that replace ...