Training one’s eye to identify trees is a fun way to connect with the world around us and can be useful for making home landscape selections. Trees are often identified using leaf shape and color, ...

Creating bark cloth art involves several techniques, like stripping, soaking, and beating the bark into thin sheets. The ...

Gardeners who limit their love to leaves and flowers are barking up the wrong tree. Sure, those ephemeral features are undeniably seductive, but their allure is limited to warmer months. In the ...

Most people tend to overlook tree bark as rather uninteresting, at best. It's too bad, because bark is a fascinating and often attractive plant "invention," and is actually rather complex in its ...

River birch is a native tree with attractive, exfoliating bark that provides exceptional ornamental value in winter. River birch is a native tree with attractive, exfoliating bark that provides ...