Fall is an excellent time to plant trees and shrubs. The soil is still warm, so roots will have time to establish themselves long before the punishing heat of next summer arrives. If you are thinking ...

The dormant season is a good time of year to examine vines and the trees they climb on. If you find your trees are being taken over by invasive or planted vines, cut them away at the base of the tree ...

Vines are an easy, organic way to jazz up desert trees. If you have a lackluster paloverde or mesquite tree in your yard, training a vine up a trunk adds color and interest. In fact, even a dead tree ...

A forest is really a community of plants and animals. Within this large community are smaller groups of living things that grow together. Even an individual tree often has an association of plants ...