Cut into the trunk of a pine tree, and you will see a familiar series of concentric rings, each corresponding to a season of growth. But not all stumps tell the same story. A study published in ...

A master gardener recently told me not to purchase trees with narrow angled crotches. Can you tell me what this means and why I should avoid them? Now that our trees have lost all of their leaves, it ...

The newly discovered tree would have supported a wide crown of leaves over a narrow trunk, scientists say. Tim Stonesifer Scientists in Canada have discovered a 350-million-year-old tree fossil that ...

Wood is becoming an increasingly popular building material, but the timber is harvested mainly just from the long, straight trunks of trees. Aiming to reduce waste, an MIT team has developed a method ...

Which branches — if any — should you be cutting off your young trees? You can't glue the wrong choices back on!