For more than 20 years, my serviceberry tree has gifted the birds and me with small, round fruits that taste like almonds when you bake them in muffins. This year, it produced another huge crop, and ...

About 20 years ago, my husband and I bought a house with a yard full of tall live oaks and a little fig tree by the driveway. “The kid who lived here stuck a cutting from my tree in the ground when I ...

A close-up of an oak leaf with bumps, or galls, from the gall wasp, Photo courtesy Getty Images. Welcome to our tree column, “Ask your local arborist.” Each month, arborists from the Davey Tree Expert ...

For those who celebrate Christmas, this is peak tree-decorating time, a joyous part of the season when families wrap a technically dead and highly flammable fir tree in cheap electrical wires while ...

Lately, my social media algorithm has been circling back to Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” specifically her famous poem “The ...

The holiday tree is the center of many family celebrations. Ornaments collected over the years decorate the boughs while brightly wrapped gifts are carefully placed underneath. But the hunt for the ...

This time of year, all eyes are on the trees as their leaves transform from green to vibrant shades of red, yellow and orange. But at Five Rivers MetroParks, trees are always top of mind. Trees clean ...

For the past several years I've received requests to reprint a Christmas column I wrote for The Forum in 1988. This season I heard from people who have similar Christmas tree memories. A couple of ...

In the summer of 1930, the Great Depression and Prohibition are spreading their ill effects across the nation. Americans, desperate for diversion from the negativity, look to satisfy their craving for ...

At the outset of the pandemic in March and the stay-at-home directive, I began working from my home office. The spare bedroom does double duty as an office and a catch-all for things. The room has ...