Trees are not immune to the extreme winter weather seen recently in the West. Heavy snowfall, wind and rain have caused treetops to bend to the ground, large limbs to snap, and even entire trees to ...

Is it beginning to look a lot like Christmas? I grew up measuring Christmas by the tree. Cut-your-own, grocery-lot deals, even in my young adult years, Manhattan bodega carry-aways à la “When Harry ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I’ve been answering gardeners’ tree questions for 54 years. I thought you might enjoy seeing some of the more interesting ones.

A couple moves a freshly sawn Christmas tree from a tree farm near the small Bavarian village of Tuerkenfeld, in southern Germany, on Dec. 11, 2016. As a child growing up in suburban southern ...

My origin story begins on Christmas Eve. My parents met on Dec. 24 on a southbound train. When they got married a decade later, it was in late January, but neither could remember which day. They ...

Growing up Jewish, I've never had a Christmas tree in my house. When my wife and I had kids, a tree seemed like more trouble than it was worth. This year, to the delight of my children, we have our ...

Last summer, I learned that the beloved maple tree in our front yard had brittle cinder fungus and was rotting from the bottom up. Nearly the entire base had turned black, and, worse, the bark ...