Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come. - Karen Joy Fowler Author Karen Joy Fowler has it right. When it comes to "immortal" trees in Illinois and the Eastern U.S., none have ...

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Louisiana Super Plants program, an educational and marketing campaign that highlights tough and beautiful plants that perform well in Bayou State landscapes ...

Three bald cypress trees, each more than 120 years old, stand on an 18th century farm in Willow Street — many miles from where their seedlings originated in Louisiana in 1893. Now the Louisiana State ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leyland Cypress Trees in a Row along Road as hedge. “Cypress” is a name or nickname bestowed on a variety of species of trees.

Guys whose follicles are dwindling on a daily basis probably don’t think bald is beautiful. But when the subject shifts to deciduous trees, many species are stunning as they approach dormancy and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. San Antonio Botanical Garden volunteers Nancy Alford, Susan Lisk and Elia Keck process seeds collected from the upper Guadalupe ...

Some bald cypress trees in the Black River wetland forest are more than 2000 years old. Image courtesy Dan Griffin, University of Minnesota Some bald cypress trees in the US state of North Carolina ...

I see that the New Jersey Heritage Program, which keeps track of these things, has decided that bald cypress, heretofore considered a non-native species, has been promoted to native on the strength of ...

Indiana is home to a variety of tree species. While some range all across our state, a number of others have a rather limited range and only exist in a few sites, often in areas that are hostile to ...