We love the vibrant colors of maple trees in the fall. These deciduous beauties bring not only great color but also a recognizable leaf shape and (our favorite) whirlybird seeds that helicopter their ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When we first moved into our home, there was a spindly pear tree. It was dormant when we bought our house, but as the tree started producing ...

A highly contagious disease that can wipe out an apple orchard threatens Connecticut’s fruit crop. But there’s help on the way. Fire blight, a bacteria that gets into the apple tree as it is flowering ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Early June, we received a white pine sample at the Purdue University Plant and Pest Diagnostic Lab that showed early season needle loss lower in the tree canopy (Figure 1, 2).

NELSON COUNTY -- A much-mourned American legend still grows in the woodlands of the southern mountains. Quietly, on Appalachian hillsides millions of its progeny peek through the leaf litter. A few of ...

Forestry experts have determined that a needle blight is at least partly to blame for an issue affecting thousands of acres of pine trees in south Arkansas, the latest area to confirm the disease that ...

Drought and other stresses related to our current weather patterns can be hard on trees. But combining climate impacts with nagging insect pests just makes things worse, says Corvallis urban forester ...

What would you say is the greatest threat to the survival of our trees? Deforestation? Climate change? How about disease? Many of us don't really think about trees getting sick or infected but pests ...