Conifers and other evergreens and even the bare deciduous trees create the winter wonderland we so enjoy in the Berkshires.

Native trees, especially oaks and birch, are important to the reproductive success of insectivorous birds and other wildlife.

In elementary school, most of us learned the basic differences between deciduous and coniferous trees. Deciduous trees have leaves that change color and drop in the fall, and coniferous trees have ...

As climate change drives more frequent and severe wildfires across boreal forests in Alaska and northwestern Canada, ...

Fire is a hot topic these days, particularly when it comes to the boreal forest, the vast expanse of trees that stretches across Alaska, Canada and other cold northern regions. Large fires have been ...

More severe and frequent fires in the Alaskan boreal forest are emitting vast stores of carbon, but new research from shows those losses are offset by the fast-growing deciduous trees that replace ...

Most leaf drop of deciduous trees and shrubs occurs by mid-December. Some plants will start dropping leaves as early as the second week of November while others drop leaves later. But of course, much ...

Since the fig forms its fruit on shoots that start to grow in the spring, it can be radically pruned in the winter without affecting the following year’s two crops. The first crop starts to grow in ...

Put plainly, ball moss isn’t pretty. While Spanish moss can look like a sophisticated adornment, greenish-gray clumps of ball ...

Fall foliage color is produced by deciduous trees and shrubs. Up North, the spectacular fall color has long come and gone. Here in the Deep South, fall color is not as prominent, but we do see some.

There's a right (and a wrong time) to water.