After a summer of tending to vegetables and flowerbeds, winter can be the perfect time to step back and focus on chores that keep your garden running in tip-top shape. For some people, winter garden ...

Winter is beautiful in its own pale ways, but when lush, leafy trees suddenly stand bare and stark against gray skies, an otherwise vibrant yard can seem a bit glum. It’s easy to assume the garden’s ...

A common piece of advice you will hear is to prune trees during the winter while they are dormant. I often give that advise myself and, for most kinds of trees, that is a good rule to follow. However, ...

A walk in the woods this time of year is different. It’s quiet and monochromatic. Other than the crunch of your shoes on frozen ground, there isn’t as much to see or hear as a forest in spring or ...

When trees start changing in early spring, many types of crabapples are among the first to start flowering. There are more than 1,000 known cultivars of these popular trees, and they all have slight ...

Joe Stavish, Tree Pittsburgh’s education director, often takes to social media to teach people about trees. On an early December morning, about a dozen people joined him in person to learn to identify ...