Iowans who hope to do some tree planting yet this fall still likely have a couple of weeks to get the chore done, but given the long-running drought, those new seedlings will need plenty of water.

Before you head out to the nursery to purchase a tree for your landscape, there are some important things to consider.

With the seemingly ubiquitous supply of mechanical air conditioning around us these days, it can be easy to forget what it meant in the “old days” to have a big old shade tree in the back yard. When I ...

I read an interesting comment recently: “If trees produced free Wi-Fi, we’d be planting them everywhere. Too bad they only produce oxygen. “ It’s a rather tongue-in-cheek statement about trees, but it ...

Urban trees provide myriad benefits, while putting up with so much of our chaos. Here's what we can do to help them. I have a dorky habit to confess. Whenever my to-go iced coffee is finished, I dump ...

I recently wrote about pomegranate trees and the fact that although they can survive without irrigation, they will benefit from two or three soakings per month during the summer. In response to this ...