Sitting under the wide canopy of a tree can cool you off on a hot summer day and even lower home-energy costs. If your landscape is treeless, the sooner a new tree grows a shady canopy, the better. A ...

Tulip trees offer year-round shade, beautiful flowers and stunning fall foliage. Consider growing this ornamental tree if it ...

The benefits of trees are boundless. Whether it is the calming aesthetics of a tree-lined path or street, the cooling shade of a looming oak on a summer day, or the joy of watching wildlife shelter ...

Here is a Colorado State University list of trees poorly suited to the Front Range because of their invasiveness, tendency to split in windstorms or vulnerability to disease or pests. Colorado State ...

Many gardeners love being outside in their garden on a beautiful sunny summer afternoon. But what if your garden is in a full-sun location and the air temperature is 95 degrees with a heat index of ...

The Cinnamomum camphora or camphor tree is a member of the laurel family (Lauraceae). This lush evergreen tree with its aromatic glossy green leaves is native to China and Japan. Marco Polo first ...

Lots of reasons spur the planting of new trees, including shade, beauty, bird and pollinator benefits, and trees’ ability to produce oxygen while storing carbon to counteract harmful climate change.

Yep, it's the best time of year to plant trees. These are some of the trees I have planted at my home and office property. You may be surprised by some of these choices, but they are all excellent for ...

Use these ornamental grasses for shade to add additional beauty to the areas of your yard that get little sunshine. Most ornamental grasses grow best in full sun (at least 8 hours of bright sunlight ...

As the weather cools and fall color first starts to show, it is the ideal time to plant shade and ornamental trees. The first step as you start the planning is to select quality trees. Especially in ...

LOWELL — The city plans to plant about 200 ornamental shade trees in the next 12 months, in addition to the 100 it already planted in June. Thomas Bellegarde, the city’s commissioner of parks and ...

City officials are weighing whether to change Cheyenne’s tree-planting rules in new residential areas after developers said current regulations favor large shade trees that don’t always fit smaller ...