Boojum tree – Baja California, Mexico This seriously weird-looking tall, spindly cactus-like tree is among the toughest, given the desert conditions it has to withstand. Local name is ‘cirio ...

But there are also some awe-inspiring trees to be admired. Anyone visiting arboretums this year may wonder at everything from the mighty oak to the weeping willow, yet venture further from our ...

The area that is now Joshua Tree National Park wasn’t always a desert. During the Great Ice Age, also known as the Pleistocene Epoch, there were rivers and lakes as well as Columbian mammoths ...

Fruit trees need to be grown in the right conditions if they're to flower and fruit to their full potential. Bare-root fruit trees are generally cheaper to buy than potted trees, and the time to buy ...

Ogden Nash regularly contributed verse to The New Yorker for more than forty years. His last poem in the magazine was published the week after his death, in 1971. The Colorado congresswoman’s ...