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 a nut tree that grows to an impressive 100 feet tall and 70 feet wide at maturity, making it a perfect tree to ...

Fast-growing trees can add character and color to your home's landscape relatively quickly, but those varieties often require full sun to add height so quickly. However, there are plenty of ...

Many gardeners love being outside in their garden on a beautiful sunny summer afternoon. But what if your garden is in a full-sun location and the air temperature is 95 degrees with a heat index of ...

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. — With the Treasure Coast, Okeechobee and Palm Beach counties under a heat advisory, finding shade under trees may be a great way to escape the high temperatures. We spoke to ...

Cut summer heat and AC costs by planting shade trees like live oak, Texas red oak, cedar elm and Mexican sycamore.

Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. When ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — All tree shade may not be equal. For Alex Kobald, associate director of the Design Across Scales Lab at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning, ...

Teacher Olga Cueva's kindergarten class watches as fellow students Brandon Harron, Hagan Stahl and Riley Rosenthal (left to right) shovel dirt around the newly planted fern pine at Grant Elementary ...