Training one’s eye to identify trees is a fun way to connect with the world around us and can be useful for making home landscape selections. Trees are often identified using leaf shape and color, ...

Trees can be identified in winter by observing their needles, bark, branching patterns, and buds. Distinctive bark, such as ...

The bark of a tree is its own protection against the weather. While we shrug on a coat when it’s wet or cold, a tree will grow its own to insulate itself, keeping moisture out when it’s raining and in ...

The photo is of a sycamore tree at Red-tail’s McVey Memorial Forest. A walk in the woods this time of year is different. It’s quiet and monochromatic. Other than the crunch of your shoes on frozen ...

Some of the most important things I have learned have come from reader and listener tips, trying things others have said won't work and stumbling onto to some fact that started as a mistake. During ...

Flowers provide color and texture. So does foliage. What is less often considered is that the bark of many trees and large shrubbery can be aesthetically appealing as well. Bark is usually thought of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Autumn trees with red and yellow leaves. Adding one or two trees to your yard with leaves in shades of crimson, gold, russet or ...

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Many holiday floral arrangements include branches with red bark. Colorful bark is a characteristic of certain kinds of shrubs that can brighten winter when they grow in your own yard. “For the best ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — This time of year, Indiana has some trees that have changed color drastically and others that haven’t changed at all. Tree species will change at different times depending on the ...