Sitting under the wide canopy of a tree can cool you off on a hot summer day and even lower home-energy costs. If your landscape is treeless, the sooner a new tree grows a shady canopy, the better. A ...

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 ...

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I live in an older home – one built before the widespread use of central air conditioning. And, from my experience over the past four decades, previous generations had a pretty clever way of staying ...

Here is a Colorado State University list of trees poorly suited to the Front Range because of their invasiveness, tendency to split in windstorms or vulnerability to disease or pests. Colorado State ...

Trees provide important contributions to urban communities like Salem and Keizer, providing a vast array of benefits for humans that include clean air, clean water, wildlife habitat, psychological ...

Smaller native shade trees will delight you with fragrant blossoms, striking bark and manageable size without overwhelming ...

Looking for a few good new plants to add to your tired, winter-beaten landscape this spring? Start with choices that growers, plant organizations and other plant experts have picked as award-winners.

Yep, it's the best time of year to plant trees. These are some of the trees I have planted at my home and office property. You may be surprised by some of these choices, but they are all excellent for ...

Summer is here and the large, flowering yellow poinciana trees are blooming now. These trees are so large their colorful blooms will be visible from far away, so scan the horizon for yellow as you ...

Many of our homes are designed to isolate the outdoors and all the goodness that comes with it. Kenya: Plants perform a variety of functions in your backyard. They constitute the garden’s floors, ...