Adding one or two trees to your yard with leaves in shades of crimson, gold, russet or burgundy is a wonderful way to introduce vibrant color, ornamental detail and structure. The color palette of ...

Fall is marked by the slow, beautiful change of green foliage to vibrant colors. As the temperatures drop and the days grow shorter, leaves stop making chlorophyll, a pigment responsible for the ...

Plants that drop all their leaves at one time and enter a leafless, dormant state are called deciduous. In climates that ...

As you watch leaves turning yellow on buckeye trees, red on Japanese maples and burgundy on white oaks, you may wonder: Why does this happen? Why don’t all trees stay green all year, like a pine or a ...

It seems that for much of the summer we were receiving just enough rain to keep the lawn mowers running, but not much extra. Lately, the rain has nearly turned off completely. Now that we are ...

The signs are already here: scarlet flashing on sumac shrubs, a reddish tinge in some kinds of maples, yellow leaves beginning to flutter down. The colors are telling us fall is here. Typically, the ...

The Grand Duchess Balsam Fir Christmas tree has more than 3,000 branch tips and over 2,000 color-changing LEDs Home Depot TikTok is ringing in the holiday season early. Users across the platform have ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...