A stately sugar maple tree that stood little noted in a front yard on Hillcrest Avenue for perhaps centuries is down.

When you see a plant growing, flowering and fruiting in a garden, field, forest or pot you’re only seeing a part and not the whole. Much of the plant exists below the ground in the soil in the form of ...

Seattle’s maritime climate is ideal for growing giant sequoias. Here's what to know before planting one of the fastest-growing trees on Earth.

Roughly 95% of California’s old-growth redwood forests have been logged at least once, leaving mostly young trees and making the overall ecosystem less diverse. Fern mats — spongy masses of ...

At this time of year, we tend to think of trees with colorful leaves as native to colder climates than ours. But then Jenny Iyer from the Riverside-Corona Resource Conservation District (RCRCD.org) ...

Bluebell Arboretum started life on March 11, 1992, when Robert and Suzette Vernon bought six acres on the borders of Derbyshire and Leicestershire. They celebrated their purchase later that day by ...

We are in the middle of a very hot summer. As I was mowing the yard this weekend, I stopped to take a break in the shade of the swamp chestnut oak tree in my front yard. I started thinking about the ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

At a corner house in San Anselmo, a different redwood grows on three corners of the lot. The redwoods are the coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens; the Sierra redwood, Sequoiadendron giganteum; and the ...

The California Poppy isn’t the only botanical symbol of the The Golden State. Did you know there is an official state grass? You can show your state pride by growing a few on your own property. The ...

Pictures show one of Britain's tallest trees which sits in a suburban garden in Bristol - so big the housing estate was built around it. The giant redwood stands at around 120ft - towering over the ...