Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Reddit A simple weekend landscaping project quickly turned into a cautionary tale for one homeowner who almost let ...

Welcome to today's woodturning project! This time I made a vase out of this old, half-rotten plum tree root. I combined it with red colored resin, which gave a beautiful contrast to the wood. The ...

Mike Federice, Adirondack forest properties manager for SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, at Pack Demonstration Forest. Federice, who manages the college’s Adirondack properties, is ...

It’s been largely eclipsed—both by his own work, and that of Anthony Hopkins—but veteran actor Brian Cox was first introduced to a whole lot of moviegoers as cinema’s most notorious serial killer: ...

Mulching around trees helps protect roots, regulate soil temperature, and keep soil moist, but only if you do it right. More often than not homeowners and even many landscapers pile mulch around tree ...

That piled-up look traps moisture and invites pests—here’s the right way to mulch. Mulch volcanoes harm trees by trapping moisture, suffocating roots, and attracting pests. Proper mulching means a 2-3 ...

Bare root trees and shrubs, as the name suggests, are not sold in a pot or balled and burlapped. At the nursery bare root plants are grown in the ground, harvested as young plants, and sold without ...

Cutting down a tree can be quite an arduous undertaking, and how to kill a tree stump is a bit of a mystery. But if a tree is long in the tooth (or…branch?) and threatens to fall over, cut down it ...

Microbes could help oak trees cope with environmental change. Publishing February 11 in the Cell Press journal Cell Host & Microbe, a study observing oaks growing in a natural woodland found that the ...

There are several advantages to planting bare-root trees: they are usually less expensive, easier for gardeners to transport, and they will grow their roots entirely into native soil (rather than ...