Two years ago I committed myself to a strange if not eccentric project to walk all the streets named for trees in the city of Loveland. To know if any of the namesake trees actually grow along those ...

The bois d’arc is a tree with many names, including beau d’arc, Osage orange, horse apple, hedge apple and bodark. French explorers named the tree bois d’arc (wood of the bow) because the American ...

Well, you're not alone. Many people haven't, at least, perhaps, by those names. Those are some of the common names for a pretty, small tree we have blooming in our open fields and forests in May. It's ...

In my travels this past week I’ve seen a lot of catalpa trees covered with clusters of bell-shaped white flowers. Northern catalpas are native to this part of the country, but there are other catalpas ...