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 ...

Seedlings need lots of TLC when being planted in the ground with hopes of growing into strong, healthy trees. A planter will dig a hole two or three times as wide as the roots of the baby tree, making ...

The D.C. area’s council of governments wants to get at least half of the region covered in trees. After years of shrinking tree cover, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) adopted ...

Sacramento is the self-proclaimed “City of Trees.” Though the water tower on Interstate 5 holds a different slogan, the city continues to boast many arboreal neighborhoods — full of oak, redwood and a ...

SACRAMENTO — The city of trees is looking to nearly double its tree canopy over the next two decades. The City of Sacramento approved an urban forest plan with a big goal to plant 25,000 trees a year ...

Seattle is losing trees in its parks and urban forests, the last places you might think that would happen. The trend, picked up by a recent study of the city's tree canopy, results from an aging ...

Over their 40-year lifetime, the new trees will capture 28 million gallons of rainfall and store more than 5.4 million pounds of carbon dioxide. Wake County Government Seedlings need lots of TLC to ...