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 ...

A picture supposedly showing an unusual wood pattern beneath the bark of a burned tree is met with a wide range of reactions (and humorous comments) whenever it circulates on social media: This is a ...

The reddish gray-brown bark of the red oak tree with its darker vertical markings is one of the key features to identifying the tree in winter. (Clay Wollney) Leaves are the most useful and frequently ...

At this season, one of the most important features of trees and shrubs really shines: bark. “In winter, with the leaves gone, it’s more exposed, and we can really see it,” says Kris Bachtell, vice ...

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 ...