There’s a particular kind of afternoon light in Bay Area gardens that people don’t talk about enough. It filters through ...

Learn the species of maple trees most commonly found in the United States, and how to tell them apart.

Now that autumn has blessed us with its presence, the vibrant colors of fall will be commencing all over our region soon. Mother Nature will whip out her brush and paint breathtaking swathes of gold, ...

Red Maple Tree Identification Red maple is called red because its twigs, buds, and flowers are all red, and its leaves turn a flaming red in the fall–in fact, its leaves are among the earliest in the ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The sugar maple (Acer saccharum) can be considered the star of eastern North ...