Ginkgos also possess the gift of dramatic timing. While other trees can take weeks to drop all their leaves in autumn, ginkgos can complete the task within a day. One day you’re admiring the beautiful ...

On what day will the ginkgo leaves fall this year? Sometimes people make a bet as to when. This time of year leaves are dropping and landing everywhere, littering the ground. But the ginkgo tree ...

The ginkgo leaves on Miami University's campus are turning yellow. First year students in Miami University's architecture program are staking out ginkgo trees on campus — literally — in anticipation ...

There are some trees whose showiness does not end once they’ve lost their leaves in autumn. Some trees have an attractive bony framework that is then revealed. Ginkgo tree, for instance. Leafless, a ...

Animals such as horseshoe crabs that have been around for millennia without seeming to change much are sometimes referred to as "living fossils." Among plants, the ginkgo tree could be given the same ...

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 ...

Ginkgo Trees in Washington D.C. There’s a tendency to think of “the natural world” as everything beyond the asphalt. But soil often lies just a couple inches below the concrete, and the design of our ...