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. As the growing season fades, we bid adieu to many of ...

Few shade trees are as distinctive in the home landscape as birch trees. Their unique bark characteristics, distinctive growth form and graceful delicate foliage are reason alone to feature one or ...

There are many trees that provide excellent shade in the landscape. These trees are all fast growing, hardy, and can be ...

Q: I wanted to share with you photos of my cotoneaster hedge which was successfully rejuvenated after severe rabbit injury this past winter. — Dave Stark, West Fargo. From left, a before-and-after ...

By a lake in the northern country, there was a forest where birch trees swayed in the wind. In spring, tiny flowers would wake up, and in summer, sunlight filtering through the trees would dance upon ...

Dear Master Gardener: We would like to plant a large shade tree with beautiful fall color to add to our landscape. Is a yellow birch a good choice? The bark on yellow birch is yellow-gray to ...

Every week, fleets of road sweepers trundle through cities collecting a gritty, unglamorous slurry of litter, leaves, grit, glass and plastics from the streets. Most of that material, once washed and ...

When it comes to choosing plants with the most long-term benefit to the birds in your backyard, you can’t go wrong with native trees. Trees offer a whole buffet of food options in the form of seeds, ...

Q. (My) birch tree, planted many years ago, has never really grown full. In the spring, it will get tiny green leaves but (it’s) still very airy and not full foliage. We’ve been told not to prune it.

When drought strikes, a tree cannot walk to the water. It must either endure or die, and the difference between those two fates often comes down to molecular machinery operating silently inside its ...

Even though I am sure I have seen these all my life, I don’t remember ever noticing the actual seeds of birch trees until relatively recently. This is one of those things that is so easy to overlook, ...