When the summer heat hits, we Southerners remember to appreciate our iconic spread of green trees that provide a shady rest on a humid afternoon. Finding a sheltered spot under a giant tree is a ...

On a gray January morning, in a muddy right-of-way near the Kentucky Exposition Center, a crew of contractors worked a half-dozen bald cypresses into the earth, part of a project in anticipation of a ...

Readers of this column aren't surprised to see me writing about trees, since I often praise their planting and fuss at those who would indiscriminately cut them down. But this time I am going to stop ...

On a recent group tree identification hike in a Leon County park, I found it interesting that the one tree everyone could identify was southern magnolia, Magnolia grandiflora. And it’s no wonder, as ...

For a Yankee in the South, everything about the environment scares you off. Heat. Humidity. Flying termite season (seriously, it’s a thing). But this cold-and-snow-loving Northerner braved the bugs ...