Make a dress form Christmas tree using your sewing dress form. Add garlands to an embroidery hoop and ornaments to reuse it year after year. I’ve always admired mannequin ...

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now,” or so goes the Chinese proverb. If you’ve ever basked under the cathedral-like canopy of a magnificent old shade tree on a ...

Bonsai is an art form that requires years of training and centuries of dedication. At the 2012 international bonsai convention, a tree was on sale for 100 million yen, just under a million dollars.

The cooling effect of pollution may have been exaggerated. Fossil fuel burning spews sulfuric acid into the air, where it can form airborne particles that seed clouds and cool Earth’s climate. But ...

The growing recognition of how trees communicate with one another is a 21st century phenomenon which has revolutionised how we think about forests, woodlands and the individual trees which populate ...

Winter 2014 probably will go down as a rough one for some trees. We have seen lots of snow and ice loading lead to broken of branches in large and small trees alike. Just a half-inch of ice on ...

I just discovered some damage from deer rubs to the trunks of a couple of my trees. Will the trees be OK, and what can I do to protect them in the future? Bucks can cause significant damage to young ...

Bucks can cause significant damage to young trees in the fall by rubbing their antlers on trunks. Male deer do this to clean their antlers of summer velvet from early September through November while ...

A few weeks ago, I had a wide-ranging discussion with tree scholar, and integral ecologist Laura Pustarfi that sent my mind whirling in many different directions for a number of reasons, including my ...