Sitting under the wide canopy of a tree can cool you off on a hot summer day and even lower home-energy costs. If your landscape is treeless, the sooner a new tree grows a shady canopy, the better. A ...

There's nothing quite like enjoying your morning coffee on your patio in the dappled shade. Sadly, this rarely comes to pass, as most shade trees are prone to dropping twigs, petals, fruits, seeds, ...

Every time Bob Henrickson spots a chinkapin oak around Nebraska — and that’s not often — he thinks, “What a gorgeous tree.” Bob Henrickson, left, says the chinkapin oak is his favorite underutilized ...