Although it's not officially here until Dec. 21, it's beginning to look a lot like winter, wouldn't you say? Undoubtedly, lingering snowbirds are packing their gear and getting ready to depart for ...

It looks to me like there have been bumper crops of local berries this year; down in the lowlands of coastal Maine winterberry is showering the swamps with red, and the dark blue berries of the maple ...

Leaves – deciduous, odd-pinnately compound, 13-17 inches long, tapered, and alternately arranged in 11-17 finely toothed, hairless leaflets; leaflets are 2-4 inches long and ⅝-1 inch wide. Twigs – ...

), is an ornamental tree with edible but bitter berries. But its cousin, Europe's mountain ash or rowan tree ( S. aucuparia ) offers beauty and much more palatable berries with a zingy flavor. The ...

Should you venture into the higher elevations of the mountains from now until early winter, you might be on the lookout for a tree displaying vividly colored reddish-orange 3-4-inch-wide flat-topped ...

The vibrant red-orange berries from the mountain ash tree, also known as the rowan tree, are technically edible raw. Technically. Uncooked, they’re unpleasantly bitter, Kevin Hickey says. You wouldn’t ...

David Lindenmayer receives funding from the Australian Research Council. By any scientific yardstick, forestry operations in Victoria cannot be regarded as ecologically sustainable. Much of the ...

Q. I have a Mountain ash tree that has some dead branches in it. In May of this year, there were small birds eating on the sap and as they did, they made a lot of holes in the tree. What can I do to ...