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Dear Roger: I am choosing some trees for my landscape. I have bought a house on 2.5 acres with a small stream and some damp spots. It has no trees. I also have some sandy, dry spots. I want trees that ...

Sure, flowers, shrubs, and perennials make for pretty flower beds, but don't forget about trees to go alongside them in your landscaping! Have a small backyard or small lot? No problem. Plenty of ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

The benefits of trees are boundless. Whether it is the calming aesthetics of a tree-lined path or street, the cooling shade of a looming oak on a summer day, or the joy of watching wildlife shelter ...

Patience is a virtue, and many trees require it. "Trees, in general, live on a much longer timeline than we do, with many living for hundreds, and some even thousands of years," says Nancy Gaspari, an ...

When you have a smaller space and still want a shade tree, here’s a list of those that are best suited to our North Texas conditions.

One of the landscaping issues often raised is the lack of small trees in a landscape. Too often landscapes include a lawn, small shrubs and tall shade trees with no small-size trees that would help ...

We have reached the point in summer when many of the plants in our landscape are at their best. Lots of green growth, bright flowers, and every type of insect and bird can be seen outside in your ...