From Estonia to Antarctica, this once-pagan symbol has taken on many strange forms. In December 1848, an illustration showed Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their children admiring a Christmas tree ...

Many of the best artificial Christmas trees are on sale for Cyber Week, including our best overall pick, the National Tree Company Douglas Fir. For more deals, check out our roundup of the best Cyber ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Christmas tree growers have been struggling with an invasive scale pest called Cryptomeria scale (Aspidiotus cryptomeriae), which is a serious pest of conifers. The scales ...

Hardwoods, known as broadleafs, are trees classed as angiosperms with ovules enclosed for fruit protection. When appropriately watered on good fertile sites or fed in the landscape with a unique tree ...

Bryan Nelson is a science writer and award-winning documentary filmmaker with over a decade of experience covering technology, astronomy, medicine, animals, and more. Until 2013, Methuselah, an ...

Christmas trees are the centerpiece of a holiday celebration. Every year, between 25 and 30 million Christmas trees are sold in the United States, according to the National Christmas Tree Association.

When a neighbor’s tree hangs over your property it can be a nuisance—and even cause damage. But tread carefully before you trim it. Sometimes it seems like living in a society would be much better if ...

The spirit of Christmas spreads through sprouts around the world. Cities around the world manage every year to turn the festive end-of-year spotlight on one of the holidays’ most revered symbols, the ...

Sydney's avenues of plane trees have their new leaves for spring and will provide much-needed shade in the city's concrete jungle for an expected hot El Niño-charged summer. But the London plane trees ...

After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May and announcing store closures in June, Christmas Tree Shops is set to close its remaining 49 stores across 16 states. The Massachusetts-based retail chain ...