When you buy a bare root red maple tree to plant in your yard, it'll usually look more like a skinny stick than a towering shade tree. While it'll take time for it to reach maturity, it won't stay a ...

The sun came out! So it was a day for me and a friend to head to the Boy Scout Camp Trail, dodging rain puddles here and there. A tree swallow cavorted over the river, making long, graceful swoops. We ...

The red maple is the first native tree to blossom on Staten Island. From a distance, it's easy to spot the bright red of the female flowers (at top of photo) and orange-red appearance of the male ...

In 2019, Melanie Munro decided it was time to start her own home-grown business, literally. Inspired by childhood memories of her grandparents' mandarin farm, Munro threw some seed out into the yard ...

I’ve been watching red maple flowers every spring for a few years now and photographing them. The pictures help because I am poor at keeping a journal. I realized I had never learned about how such an ...

It's late April, and the pace of spring happenings has been speeding up. We now have a sunset after 8 p.m. and the days are reaching 14 hours of light. Late April can still be cold. Snow is not ...

Who knew? Maple trees have flowers! I had never noticed the tiny yellow corymbs on the backyard maple at the farm until Sunday's sun brought the garden to life. Saturday's downpour had been rain so ...

April showers bring May flowers. Surprise: they also bring April flowers. After his harsh winter, we finally see pert white caps on pussy willows blooming next to our pond. It is two weeks later than ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Beneath the forest canopy, or overstory, of towering trees is a second layer of vegetation known as the understory. It is composed of shrubs, saplings, ...