Trees can be identified in winter by observing their needles, bark, branching patterns, and buds. Distinctive bark, such as the smooth gray bark of a beech or the peeling white bark of a paper birch, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Quite a few of my friends have been grumbling about how they can’t wait for winter to be over and that they are ready for spring.

Japanese maples, Acer palmatum, are popular, highly ornamental trees that add value and lustrous color to your landscape. Considered low maintenance, they grow well in USDA hardiness zones 5 through 7 ...

Winter is beautiful in its own pale ways, but when lush, leafy trees suddenly stand bare and stark against gray skies, an otherwise vibrant yard can seem a bit glum. It’s easy to assume the garden’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 11—OULU — It's a quiet day at the sugar shack: Maple sap boils inside, sending up a shifting cloud of steam. A fire burns ...

Attendees were also invited to sample sap straight from the tree and enjoy treats like maple candies, syrup-covered pancakes, ...

The Martins began tapping in January, much earlier than the traditional sugaring season start. Warming winters have shifted the timing and length of maple sugaring season in Wisconsin, the ...

The nights are still cold but days are (mostly) becoming milder. That means it’s time to tap into those maple trees to begin the process of converting the sticky sap into delicious maple syrup or ...

After the harvesting process comes the real work of maple sugaring, which is concentrating the sap into delicious maple syrup. Commercial producers use reverse osmosis, and Kinnan says he is ...

With the temperatures rising many of the maple trees in the area will soon be ready to be tapped for syrup. While syrup ...

The colder-than-normal temperatures and significant snowfall in the Northeast have hit the region’s maple sugar producers hard, pushing back the start of the production process and perhaps leading to ...