Climate change has made chestnut a recommended tree choice because it is at this point not targeted by critters like emerald ash borer. This time of year, look up when searching for beautiful blooms, ...

It’s a blessing moving into a home, as I did 13 years ago, where the previous owners had been interested in the plantings. Hence a lovely hawthorn, flowering dogwood, flowering quince and a linden ...

Curt Laffin shows the flowers of an American chestnut tree in Mont Vernon on July 8. Credit: Courtesy of Arthur F Rounds Sign up for the Concord Monitor's morning newsletter and get essential news ...

While bold evergreens can add lovely blue-green shades to your yard, and many maples turn delightful colors in the fall, there's nothing quite like the burst of flowers from a flowering tree. If you ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Growing an ethereal garden you want to look at every day requires one crucial component: variety. While a ...

The American Chestnut tree once made up nearly 25% of the hardwood trees in our virgin forests, with a range extending from southern Maine through Georgia and as far west as the plains of Illinois.

MR. F. B. HUTCHINSON of 36, St. Aubyns, Hove, Sussex, writes that early in September in Luxemburg, he noticed that two horse-chestnut trees (sculus Hippocastanum) in the Place Guillaume were in full ...