Just a week after the anniversary of George Washington's birthday, strong winds knocked down a 227-year-old tree that the founding father himself had planted at his Mount Vernon estate. The Virginia ...

The fierce Nor'easter that knocked out power and flooded streets along the East Coast snapped a tree that may have been planted by George Washington on his Mount Vernon estate. The Facebook page for ...

Eastern hemlock trees do not do well in an urban environment and have a very low tolerance for polluted air and salt damage from roadways. It needs to be in a sheltered location protected from drying ...

CORNISH FLAT, N.H. The Canadian or Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) is, in my opinion, an under-utilized landscape tree. Perhaps they are spurned as too common, or rejected because they get too big.

During a season when many brought evergreens into their homes, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources wants residents of the Keystone State to know their state tree – a ...

Rhode Island is mobilizing a small army of "tiny but mighty" bugs to help save its majestic hemlock trees. Brought into the Ocean State from Virginia, the predator beetles named Laricobius nigrinus ...

BRAINERD, Minn.--Dr. Roland Kehr and his late wife Pat moved into the house at 723 N. Fourth Street in Brainerd 40 years ago. The couple was told the eastern hemlock, also called a Canadian hemlock, ...

The holiday season is here, and for many Georgia families that means a trip to the local Christmas tree farm is in order. While the elements of the perfect tree are different for everyone, there are ...