We love a towering oak tree or a stately maple in full glory in the autumn. But unless you have a huge garden with plenty of room for them to stretch out, these trees aren't going to work in a smaller ...

Plum trees offer fresh fruit in summer, but they can also take up way too much space in your garden. Try this type of plum ...

You don't need a big backyard to enjoy fresh fruit from your own garden. Whether you have a tiny patio or even just a balcony, these compact fruit trees are worth the space they take. They're native ...

The dinosaurs and I grew up when home lots were much larger. We thought nothing of planting live oaks and letting them spread as far as they wanted. Their 75-foot wingspans were no problem at all. But ...

In a recently published paper, PhD student Ellen Waddle and her coauthors provide some clarity on a decades-old problem When researching what drives the growth of small populations, ecologists ...

Researchers looked at the distributions of more than 46,000 tree species around the world and found that more than 13% have no protection. For all species examined, at least half of their distribution ...

Image of a branch of a tree that was believed to be extinct, Ilex sapiiformis, better known as Ilex de Pernambuco, in Brazil. Credit: © Fred JORDAO / Wild Project ...