To start a chaste tree from seed, collect and extract the seed from mature fruit in the fall. Plant it in a container filled ...

Selecting trees and shrubs for your landscape Blue beech has smooth bluish-gray bark that provides ... Red maple is highly valued as a landscape tree for its flowers and fall foliage that light up ...

Blue beech (Carpinus caroliniana), also called musclewood or American hornbeam, is a small, slow-growing tree, native to Minnesota and the eastern U.S. In Minnesota, it is found in the understory in ...

Scientists studying pine trees and juniper shrubs in northern Scandinavia are revealing the weather of the past by looking at tree rings — which can tell us far more than just the trees’ age. ‘Blue’ ...

Overall, only 2.1% of the pine trees' rings and 1.3% of the juniper shrubs' rings were blue; the cells which hadn't lignified properly were mainly found at the end of growth rings, in latewood ...