Vessels in a tree’s xylem transport water from the roots to the rest of the plant. Hardwood tree species tend to have large ...

When a tree falls in your backyard, you have the chance to create a unique outdoor decor piece. Here's how to upcycle it in the most brilliant way.

The monsoon season is here. Whether or not we get rain is yet to be seen. However, even if we don’t receive the rain, we ...

The beautiful Serviceberry tree is a diminutive yet hardy specimen from the eastern US, loved for its flowers and foliage. It's these qualities that earn it its reputation as a tough urban tree.

Martha Stewart is still the biggest influencer around. The 83-year-old home and garden icon continues to influence the influencers as the “Martha Stewart aesthetic” is set to “take center stage,” ...

Normaliati Ali of the Jakun indigenous community wore a dress handcrafted from terap and pudu tree bark to celebrate her big day.

Ask the Gardener: Barking up the right tree Winter is the perfect time for shrubs with colorful branches and trees with ornamental skin to shine.

The center of a tree or shrub stem (from roots to trunk, branches, and twigs) is woody, composed of xylem cells that conduct water from the roots to the upper parts of the tree. That woody section ...

I often wonder what our parkways would look like in winter if the crape myrtles planted there possessed colorful bark.

Although this adaptation helps the tree throughout winter, photosynthesis through bark becomes most active in the “vernal window,” the shoulder season between winter and spring, after snowmelt and ...

Washington State University Dr. Universe: Why do trees have bark? – Grant, 5, Texas; William, 7, Virginia; Kate, 9, Florida Dear Grant, William and Kate, When I was little, I liked to climb ...