Planting a peach tree in your yard puts fresh, ripe peaches within reach. Among fruit trees, peaches (as well as apricots and nectarines) are ideal candidates for growing from seed. All you need are ...

This easy-to-grow tree just keeps on giving.

Have you dreamed of watching fruit blossom in your own backyard? Why not start with a cherry tree? The low-maintenance tree will bring you plenty of fruit to enjoy.

A state regulatory agency determined the six plant species pose a risk to Michigan’s environment, economy, and/or public ...

I grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, with a yard that celebrated the best of the Southern landscape. Some of the features ...

Growing apple trees can be challenging. Here is what experts recommend to increase your chances for a bountiful apple harvest.

The history of the foods we eat is often long and complex and that's definitely true of modern broccoli plants, whose history ...

Planting more trees can help cool the planet and reduce fire risk—but where they are planted matters. According to UC Riverside researchers, tropical regions provide the most powerful climate benefits ...

Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1 trillion trees this decade in an ambitious effort to slow climate change and reduce biodiversity loss. But if the past is prolonged, many of those ...

Forests provide myriad benefits, including timber, wildlife attraction, local cooling and climate resilience. At the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, ecologists are testing which tree ...

In early April, lightning streaked across the black clouds looming over my city, and thunder roared. I stood under a 100-year-old redwood with fellow tree planters caught off guard on a natural ...