A recent story in the Belle Plaine Herald about a giant white oak tree in that city set off a big tree arms race of sorts, at least for Belle Plaine resident Juan Nazario. Nazario knew of a bigger ...

Take a fallen leaf to ... them all to get on their way to becoming a dendrologist or an arboriculturist. Learning to spot just a few of our most common trees, like the english oak, silver birch ...

By Cliff Johnson Carver/Scott Master gardener In the late 1940s, thousands of soldiers returned from WWII and immediately set about buying homes and producing children (i.e., the “baby boom”). The ...

This old oak tree has been growing here for hundreds of years. It stands here in all weathers getting bigger and bigger. Every autumn, the leaves drop off and oak trees become bare. This doesn't ...