Every fall, there comes a moment as lovely and fleeting as a visit from a butterfly: when the ginkgo trees are golden. The incandescent yellow lasts for just a few days — sometimes only one — and then ...

One of the most interesting trees that can locally be grown is a ginkgo tree. It was called a "living fossil" by Darwin because it is basically the same tree found in fossils from more than 200 ...

Ginkgo biloba, the sole survivor of the ancient Ginkgoales family, has roots stretching back an astounding 270 million years.

I’ve been dazzled in recent weeks by the autumn color of the ginkgo trees along my usual routes around Greenville, especially on McDaniel Avenue and Augusta Street. The trees are a bright green ...

A ginkgo tree in December has the most brilliant golden foliage you will ever see, and I consider myself privileged to have a few of them growing in my neighborhood. The ginkgo is sometimes referred ...

Although adding a tree to one's garden is a major decision, trees serve so many valuable purposes that I like to include them in this column from time to time. One of my favorites is the instantly ...

Ginkgo trees are either male or female, and they reproduce when a sperm from a male tree, carried by grains of pollen floating on the wind, connects with a seed on a female tree and fertilizes it, not ...

The smell wafted through the air in the October sunshine. At least one Harvard scientist has likened it to “rancid butter and vomit,” while Jennifer Iida, a spokesperson for Sacramento’s Department of ...

Q: I have a female ginkgo tree and my (lucky) next-door neighbor has two males. A new ginkgo has self-planted itself in a nice spot in the front yard. Is there any way to tell at this tender age ...