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 ...

As mentioned in my previous column ("Strong Wind Finds Faults in Trees," Feb. 12), this concept has been percolating in my mind for a long while: Certain aspects of tree structure seem almost ...

We’re crazy about this gorgeous botanical garden in Medellin, Colombia that was renovated in 2008 by Plan B Architects. The Orquideorama is an organically expanding wooden meshwork of modular ...