He taught us to recognize the diamond pattern on hickory bark and reminded us to check whether branches were opposite or ...

HAMLIN TOWNSHIP, MI – Learn about the three Bs of wintertime tree identification during this guided walk at a Michigan state park. While leaves are a useful tool for pinpointing tree species during ...

While flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) is a well-known small spring flowering tree, the relatively obscure alternate-leaved dogwood (Cornus alternifolia) also has many favorable landscape attributes ...

To properly manage a tree, you need to know what species it is. Plus, tree identification is a lot of fun. Knowing a tree’s species is key to understanding their proper growing conditions, how to ...

With the advent of Memorial Day, the treescape in the Northeast has turned mostly green again, the ornamentals’ early spring flowers long dried and scattered. But there’s an exception. The vivid pink ...

Spring is the worst time of year to prune your dogwood tree because you can negatively impact spring blooms. If you want to prune your dogwood trees, any other time of the year is perfect, depending ...

Free flowering dogwood tree saplings will be handed out April 30 in Jeannette. The West Penn Power Green Team has 250 saplings to give away in honor of Earth Day. The saplings, which will have white ...

Tree Description: A small or medium-sized tree, up to 35 feet tall with a short, often crooked trunk to 12″ in diameter, and a horizontal branching habit that forms a rather flat and spreading crown.