Before stowing your gardening gloves, discover how mulching in fall can benefit the soil and help plants better handle winter ...

Want to add a tree to your landscape? Follow this checklist of tree planting tips and learn to care for trees from the roots up.

Traditional landscaping can mean high water bills, constant maintenance, and plant replacements. There's a smarter approach: ...

Research simulating a solar tree farm within a coastal forest in South Korea found that solar tree structures could preserve 99% of forest cover when compared to a fixed solar farm built in the same ...

Shasta County's defensible space rules aim to protect homes during wildfire season. What do they say and what it could mean ...

Cotoneasters (Cotoneaster spp.) are hardy, fire-resistant shrubs characterized by their thick, moisture-retaining leaves and low, spreading growth habit, which reduces flame height. Ranging from ...

Every yard needs a tree. All the better if it’s a native species of tree, one that will support native bees, butterflies and ...

Planting trees and shrubs in the fall gives them all autumn, winter and spring to establish a good root system that will ...

It has been said that the best time to plant a tree was 10 years ago. But for those of us who missed that deadline, we can still make up for lost time. In much of California, fall ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Trees offer shade during sunny New Mexico days and improve property values – but they also provide cooler temperatures and cleaner air. That’s why volunteers are planting hundreds ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A proposed administrative rule would make it easier for Portland homeowners to plant young trees. Officials are considering changing city code to allow property owners to plant ...

Billy Haag, forestry manager with Forest ReLeaf of Missouri, offers tips on planting in the tree lawn. In the city of St. Louis, the average size of a tree lawn–that strip of grass between your ...