WHAT: Contorted filbert, also known as Harry Lauder’s walking stick or corylus avellana contorta, is a deciduous tree with spiraled, mangled branches that provide striking winter interest in Northwest ...

What: Each delicate needle and branch on Larix kaempferi “Diana” twists and turns like a corkscrew. The twirling blue-green needles are irresistibly soft and very touchable. In the fall, they turn a ...

In elementary school, most of us learned the basic differences between deciduous and coniferous trees. Deciduous trees have leaves that change color and drop in the fall, and coniferous trees have ...

Every October it seems people lose their ever-loving minds over Halloween. My Facebook feed is overwhelmed with spooky posts from friends who can’t wait to scare me to death. But what they don’t know ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Opposite leaves are just what they sound like: the leaves, whether simple or ...

The dark foliage of conifer trees dominates much of our landscape. It gets to be a bit overwhelming at times, so I’m always glad when spring leaf-out brings fresh, bright greens of the deciduous tree ...