When you've always known deciduous trees to drop their leaves in winter, seeing one that hasn't can be unsettling. Here's why ...

This phenomenon, called marcescence, adds a unique dimension to the winter landscape, and gives me something to ponder while ...

One of the most important, yet challenging, skills to nail down as a wilderness survivalist is tree identification. Beyond ...

Sometimes by this time in February, the hellebores planted many years ago in a flower bed are showing buds, but that hasn’t ...

So we can see here are the roots, down here. This is its stem. And these are the leaves. Some plants, like deciduous trees, have lots of leaves in the summer but lose them in winter. Others like ...