Christmas trees are decor, but also plants. If you want your tree to last, you should avoid a few common missteps that will shorten its lifespan.

Christmas trees are facing the 'perfect storm of mass mortality.' Enter an effort to breed 'elite' Christmas trees.

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

In the wake of Del Monte Foods’ facility closures in Washington and the company’s bankruptcy, the U.S. pear industry faces oversupply and may tap into a government program that can compensate growers ...

“Trees are behaving differently across the world,” Geetha Ramaswami of the Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF) said. Ramaswami is the team lead of SeasonWatch, a citizen science project that monitors ...

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Boxelders — a tree generally disliked for their twisted limbs and inability to stand up to strong winds — nevertheless has fans. Boxelders, fast growing and short-lived, are native to the Americas, a ...

The aggressive Redbay Ambrosia beetle is no bigger than Abraham Lincoln’s nose on a penny, but over the last two decades, the invasive insect has managed to kill more than 500 million trees in North ...

If you treat them right, trees can shade your house, beautify your property, and even save you money on energy. But diseases, pests, or extreme weather can impact the sturdiest oaks. And even healthy ...

Nectarine was one of the new crops added to Grow a Garden as part of the 1.08.0 patch that also introduced the Bizzy Bees Swarm Event. There's only one place you can get this Mythical Seed at the ...

Along the banks of creeks and rivers outside of Austin, farmers growing everything from Christmas trees to ostriches have been affected by flooding. (AP Video by Joshua A. Bickel. Produced by Aya Diab ...