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 ...

Just like every individual is unique, so are trees. No two trees grow at the same rate, have the same leaf pattern, or have identical bark. However, each tree species has specific characteristics that ...

Trees can be identified in winter by observing their needles, bark, branching patterns, and buds. Distinctive bark, such as the smooth gray bark of a beech or the peeling white bark of a paper birch, ...

It’s easy to understand why some refer to winter as “stick season.” Snow cover, gray skies, and cold temperatures could lead to agreement that there is nothing but sticks to look at in the garden. But ...

Even if you don’t recognize the American beech by name, you’ve surely seen the tree: it has distinctive, smooth, gray bark, often carved with people’s initials. In fact, beeches are the most common ...

The seasons are changing from fall to winter, and one of the major changes to the environment is that the deciduous trees have lost their leaves. Evergreen trees may still have green needles, but all ...

Why do trees have bark? Julien, age 6, Melbourne. This is a great question, Julien. We are so familiar with bark on trees, that most of us just take it for granted. But bark is one of the most complex ...

Trees are nearly always selected for their flowers, foliage, or form. Yet, at this time of year, there is an often overlooked arboreal feature that may achieve sudden prominence in the garden. In ...

Along one of the trails through the Fredonia college woods is a stand of more than a dozen very old beech trees. Etched into the trees’ smooth gray bark are scores of inscriptions, many of them names ...