Native plant landscapes ... unprotected sapling trees. Bur oak leaves have rounded lobes with deep sinuses, or indentations, at the bottom and shallow sinuses at the top, producing a distinctive ...

When healthy, there are few trees more ... smooth green on the top and dramatically cottony white to silvery below. The exfoliating bark is white in winter. Although native to northeastern ...

Having grown up in Tallahassee, I love the majestic towering pines that ... light shade that lawns can thrive under and that native understory trees and shrubs prefer. They provide free mulch ...

The White Oak is a magnificent tree with its classic “oak leaf” shaped leaves, shaggy gray bark, and its shapely form and majestic size ... extensive collection of native understory trees ...

Editor’s note: This is an edited excerpt from Molly Hashimoto’s new book, “Trees of the West ... ropes and mats were made from the stringy bark. Native people in south central Washington ...

The hemlock is one of my favorite trees because of its huge size and that it grows along mountain springs and creeks that are ...

But by summer’s end the tree was suffering from lack of ... The Pacific yew is the slowest-growing kind of native tree around, yet this specimen is more than 50 feet tall and could be 600 ...