October is the perfect time for doing some tree pruning for many species because there's time for them to heal before the ...

Editor's note: Once a month, the OSU Extension Master Gardener's office of Franklin County profiles a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Nestled in the forests of central Ohio among larger ...

Mar. 7—Sparkling in morning sunlight, the Fenton River rushed alongside a narrow footpath last week that cut through a tangled stand of overhanging musclewood trees. Had our group been kayaking, we ...

Trees are often under-appreciated landscape staples, yet they are the backbone of our yards. They give beauty, structure, shade, and multi-season color. They provide a protective canopy for us, and a ...

The American hornbeam has two other common names which describe the hardness of its wood and the sinew-like fluting of its trunk and older branches: ironwood and musclewood. The relatively small size ...

“This is an ugly tree,” said Ellen Powell of the Virginia Department of Forestry, as she pointed to a pine with the stubs of branches hanging off its trunk and a tuft of needles at the top. Pines self ...