Few shade trees are as distinctive in the home landscape as birch trees. Their unique bark characteristics, distinctive growth form and graceful delicate foliage are reason alone to feature one or ...

Sitting under the wide canopy of a tree can cool you off on a hot summer day and even lower home-energy costs. If your landscape is treeless, the sooner a new tree grows a shady canopy, the better. A ...

Smallholder Sally Coulthard shares how to plant a woodland, with winter being the best time to get planting, as well as the ...

Frankly, you'd be hard-pressed to find a residential landscape that doesn't carry hostas (Hosta spp.). These herbaceous perennials sprout foliage in gorgeous colors, variegated patterns, and sizes ...

Fall is here and all of those end-of-season projects are looming. If you’ve got questions, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service.

Q. (My) birch tree, planted many years ago, has never really grown full. In the spring, it will get tiny green leaves but (it’s) still very airy and not full foliage. We’ve been told not to prune it.

Like everyone else, I complain about the all the detritus that falls from cottonwood trees every year. Who doesn’t? We got rid of almost all of those growing on our property and yet each summer there ...

After seeing my article last week on the efficacy of systemic insecticides for bark beetles and borers in pines, a reader, Ken, wondered whether a product he was using against bronze birch borers was ...