It’s exciting to see the buds on trees swelling, each ready to burst into bloom with fresh flowers or foliage when Mother Nature says it’s time. Learning to recognize deciduous trees and shrubs when ...

The Friends of the Tanger Arboretum at LancasterHistory hosted an early celebration of Arbor Day on Saturday, April 18.

The hickory genus, Carya, includes one of the tastiest nuts-the pecan, and one of the most inedible-the bitternut hickory. But it’s the distinctive shagbark hickory, Carya ovata, that I want to talk ...

At some point over the winter a big limb fell from the bitternut hickory that stands outside the far corner of the vegetable garden. I don’t know why that limb (9-10 inches in diameter) came down; ...

Did you know that pecan is a relative of the native bitternut hickory? Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee shares more about this species, which features relatively narrow leaflets, strong sulphur ...

In Hamden, west of Farm Brook Reservoir, is a meadow. Once the meadow belonged to dairy farmer Harold Hansen but the State of Connecticut, having engineered the reservoir as a watershed more than 40 ...

A volunteer hickory is growing in my backyard. No human planted it. Likely a squirrelly did the delightful deed. The rodent buried it where sun-loving prairie plants were growing, which means as the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Orchidpoet/ Getty Images Hickory trees are one of the most important hardwood trees in North America. Hickory isn't one single ...