Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood is a spring stunner because of one woman’s vision for planting magnolia trees in the 1960s.

Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1 trillion trees this decade in an ambitious effort to slow climate change and reduce biodiversity loss. But if the past is prologue, many of those ...

Communities across Iowa that want to spruce up their tree canopies can now apply for grants to buy trees to plant, and the grants will cover other costs like mulch, tree staking and protection, and ...

National Highways is to trial a new way of planting trees alongside roads after admitting its "performance on tree planting has not been good enough". Many thousands of trees have died since it ...

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With a name that calls to mind cuddly childhood toys, it’s hard not to love the Teddy Bear magnolia. This Southern magnolia cultivar, which was found as a chance seedling, derives its moniker from the ...

Georgia's state flower is changing from the 'invasive' Cherokee Rose to the native Sweetbay Magnolia after a Senate vote.

It’s inevitable — the beginning of spring and the scent of magnolias always remind me of Passover. Growing up, I lived with my parents in a two-bedroom apartment on the second floor of a three-story ...

Does your landscape need a shade tree, or do you like some of the decorative small trees? Now is a good time to plant them. If you planted your tomatoes in the garden without covering them to protect ...

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