Our native flowering shrubs can go unnoticed among the invasive Bradford pears that clutter our landscape. Have you seen any serviceberry lately? Or perhaps you know it by the name of shadbush, or ...

In this edition of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension Forester Lenny Farlee introduces us to sugarberry, a native relative of hackberry that can be found throughout Indiana. Often overlooked among other ...

For most of the 40 years they’ve lived on South Greenwood Avenue, Charles and June Robison thought the massive tree growing in their backyard was a hackberry. The only things special about it were the ...

For the past 40 years, it was just another tree growing along Rt. 52 near the Ohio River. That was before Brian Riley, a state forester, drove through Clermont County. The species resembled a ...

I often write about how flowers aren’t the only ornamental characteristic by which we should judge the aesthetic value of plants. Sure, pretty blooms are nice, but plants do other things as well.

This article is one in a series of Nature Notes columns on Frederick County’s trees. Discover Frederick’s diverse array of trees on a self-guided walking tour. To see all of the trees, it should take ...