Be sure to give additional water to any evergreens planted over the previous two years. I did some planting in my garden this ...

Hold off on pruning. Winter is a good time to prune a deciduous tree or shrub, but not an evergreen. Because the plant isn’t dormant, pruning in winter can stimulate new growth, prompting soft new ...

Trees have sophisticated mechanisms to measure time and the spectral quality of light, which is how they understand when to ...

Marcescent trees, such as oaks and beeches, do not form a complete abscission layer, and their leaves often remain attached ...

Evergreens in eastern Idaho often experience winter stress. The symptoms of browning needles, given the name of winter burn, ...

But what I was noticing were the leaves that are still on the trees ... of their history as southern evergreen species, which did not need to adapt to dry winter conditions by shedding their ...

Northern winters separate the wheat from the chaff, where trees ... our winter friend, can cause plant damage as it reflects off bright snow. The intense reflection can burn evergreen needles ...

Several Colorado towns were named among Travel and Leisure’s list of the 25 Best Christmas Towns in the U.S. for 2024.

The intense reflection can burn evergreen needles and thaw the south and west sides of tree bark, rupturing tree trunk cells when the sun goes down and temperatures plummet at nightfall. Fruit trees ...