On the hillside across from Alparon Park in Troy, there is a stand of evergreen trees that appear as if they have died. Through the years I been asked why this stand of trees died. My answer is they ...

WASHINGTON--Larch trees in the permafrost forests of northeastern China--the northernmost tree species on Earth - are growing faster as a result of climate change, according to new research. A new ...

In response to last week's column about identifying evergreens, reader Gary H. asks columnist Don Kinzler if a larch is considered an evergreen because it loses its needles in the winter. Reader Gary ...

The Dahurian larch tree, known by its scientific name as Larix gmelinii, is specially adapted to survive the long, cold, dark winters of the permafrost plains in northern Asia. The species makes up ...

Patience is a virtue, and many trees require it. "Trees, in general, live on a much longer timeline than we do, with many living for hundreds, and some even thousands of years," says Nancy Gaspari, an ...

THE mountain tops of the Alps present to the clear planetary atmosphere bare granite rocks that saw at the sky with jagged teeth. In the winter these inaccessible heights are paralyzed into a cold ...

As November comes to a close, we find ourselves just three weeks away from the official arrival of winter. Many of us have seen our first snowflakes already, and last week, we had a wintry mix that ...

Okay, so the months stretch on and, even with the promise of a vaccination and snow brightening the scape, there are evergreens to remind me of a lost tree. It happened when we moved here. Today I am ...

Growing up in the Larchmont area of Norfolk, I always heard that the neighborhood was named that because of the abundance of larch trees here. I have come to find out that the trees I thought were ...

The Larch trees still exist and can be found in the woods a little east of the Memorial Park ski jump. In 1980, at the urging of Windham County Forester Gil Cameron, the Recreation and Parks ...

In a time when attention spans are shorter than this sentence, think about bonsai. They’re special enough to be passed down from generation to generation. “In five years, that’s going to be a really ...