Editor’s note: Once a month, OSU Extension Master Gardener volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. If you want to add a large shade tree to your landscape, ...

One of the most popular trees to plant worldwide are maple (Acer) trees. With so many species, including several native to the U.S., you have your pick of stunning and unique maple varieties perfect ...

WHAT: Many sugar maples eventually grow to dominate their surroundings, not so with Apollo sugar maple, also known as acer saccharum Barrett Cole. This slow-growing columnar tree will mature to about ...

Plant the tree and backfill with the excavated soil, then top with 1 to 2 inches of compost. Tamp the ground to remove air pockets and water well. Japanese maple trees can also be planted in a ...

Some maples are to love (sugar maples) and others not (Norway maples, because they're an invasive species). But there's more to maples than those two -- including some you might like or dislike ...

It may seem paradoxical, but sugar maple trees need snow to stay warm and grow. Each winter, a deep blanket of snow — 8 inches deep or more — covers about 65 percent of northeastern sugar maples.

PORTSMOUTH — More than 10,000 trees grow in Portsmouth, including a horse chestnut planted in 1776 by Declaration of Independence signer William Whipple, and the cherry trees given by the Foreign ...