But when you slow down to look closely, you’ll discover that all trees bloom. For most species, such as familiar maples, oaks, birches, their flowers tend to be subtle. In delicate reds and greens ...

One simple method of decreasing the chances of being bitten by a tick is to wear “forest fashion” when entering tall grass, shrubs or a low-growing forest area. This fun term simply means pulling your ...

May is the greening month. We begin with trees bare of the new foliage, but by the end of the 31 days, the lengthening sunlight, warmer temperatures and ample rainfall give us a forest full of new ...

Here in the South, there is one tree deserving of all the springtime adulation it gets—the flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) ...

Cherry blossoms first landed on American soil in 1912 as a gift from the people of Japan to the United States, according to Parks Tacoma. Although the trees were intended to be primarily planted ...

Cherry blossom season is in full swing in Washington, D.C., with the trees reaching peak bloom on Friday, according to the National Park Service. Originally a gift from Japan to the United States ...

There is an Eastern dogwood tree (Cornus florida) — so-called since it is native to the Eastern US — at the end of my block, which I check on each spring to see if it’s flowering.

As it turns out, the nation’s capital may grab cherry blossom headlines with its collection of 3,800 trees, but the far lesser known Branch Brook Park in Newark, New Jersey, actually has it beat ...