Spring is here and the aspen catkins are obvious on trees in Summit County. Soon the air will be filled with greenish pollen. Later, seeds will fill the air with white tuft-like parachutes looking ...

Fall is the best time to consider planting one or more shade trees to provide your spring garden with some relief. Here's a ...

Trees spent the winter standing in all the weather while we took shelter. Whether it was a couple of feet of snow, temperatures far into the negative numbers for long periods of time or strong winds, ...

OUTBUD – Over 24 years, a unique Montana cooperative project has invested nearly $460,000 to boost regeneration of aspen stands along the Beartooth Face. “We’ve kind of reached the point where we’ve ...

Catkins on a female aspen being hand pollinated with pollen from a male tree A conservation charity hopes to boost wild populations of a rare tree. Aspens grow in cool regions of the northern ...

Aspen flowers form as catkins. These are on a female tree and the seeds are growing on the outside of the catkin Aspens are one of our most beautiful native trees and there's a huge demand for seeds ...

The poplar trees down the street are starting to look like tree versions of their close cousins, the pussy willows. Little fuzzy catkins that look a lot like a typical pussy willow have opened up all ...

Bill has been working on Phase 3 of our Japanese garden. I bought an array of Japanese maples, a loblolly pine (a reminder of Mississippi), an unusual pine and a hemlock. I noticed a special tree on ...

The poplar trees down the street are starting to look like tree-versions of their close cousins the pussy willows. Little fuzzy catkins that look a lot like a typical pussy willow have opened up all ...

A conservation charity hopes to boost wild populations of a rare tree. Aspens grow in cool regions of the northern hemisphere and in the UK the trees are mostly found in north west Scotland.