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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Don’t you wish you knew then what you know now? Speaking from experience, when I first began studying plants, people would ask me lots of gardening or landscaping questions. Did I as a first-year ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Steve Tyson’s fascination with the bald cypress began not with a visit to the bayous of Louisiana or the low country of South Carolina, where the tree is known to thrive, but ...

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 ...