Trees

More and more, homeowners are searching for small-scale flowering trees since space on most suburban lots today is limited, and there is little room for oaks, beeches, and maples. Cornus

A specimen of the dove tree, Davidia involucrata, a native of Western China, grows on top of Bussey Hilt at the Arnold Arboretum in the rather poor, stony soil of

How well it is named, this tree with an unbroken lineage of two hundred million years!  It once formed vast forests around the northern hemisphere—forests in which the dinosaur roamed

A chapter excerpt from a forthcoming new book by Jean Hersey, “Two Hundred WildFlowers to Know, to Crow, to Protect” (to be published by D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc.) Spring

Multiple-stemmed trees are gaining in popularity.  When I look out the window at the seven-stemmed catalpa breaking the view of the garden shed at the back of the yard and

With building lots growing smaller and houses shrinking closer to ground level every day, it’s time the Japanese lilac tree (Syringa amurensis japonica) came into its own.  This little-known member

Among the small secondary trees, few, if any, bloom in as great profusion as the redbud. The best-known species is Cercis canadensis, native from southwestern Ontario to New York, New

If you want a graceful, lacy tree festooned in midsummer with great sprays of yellow flowers, choose the golden rain tree (Koelreuteria paniculata) for your lawn or parkway. It is

Erythrina is a genus of plants with over 130 species of shrubs, herbaceous plants, and red flowering trees distributed in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. It’s a member of the

Seventy years ago, the crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia) was practically unknown north of the Southern states, and a narrow strip of land in the southern part of those states bordered the