Trees play a central role in life on Earth. They store CO₂, provide habitats for animals, fungi, and insects, stabilize soils ...

Fast-growing trees can add character and color to your home's landscape relatively quickly, but those varieties often require full sun to add height so quickly. However, there are plenty of ...

Gardeners want fast-growing shade trees for privacy, especially after a tree is lost to old age or other factors. While it's true that fast-growing trees for shade provide quick beauty and seclusion, ...

Patience is a virtue, and many trees require it. "Trees, in general, live on a much longer timeline than we do, with many living for hundreds, and some even thousands of years," says Nancy Gaspari, an ...

Across the American West, what looks like a leafy success story of fast-growing shade and windbreaks is doubling as a vast, ...

Q. My 10-year-old mountain laurel died, and I miss the shade it provided for the northwest corner of my house. What trees can you recommend that will grow quickly and provide protection from the ...

A city agency is replacing palms with oaks along key downtown streets. “We didn’t realize how expensive planting trees could ...

The city of Sanibel’s Natural Resources Department reported that when people think of Florida, they often think of palm trees ...

Climate change, deforestation, and habitat loss are promoting increasingly uniform forests, where fast-growing tree species ...