Over the past few years newspaper headlines suggesting that various alien invaders are decimating the British horse chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum) and that all affected trees should be removed ...

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Q: I love horse-chestnut trees. Are they hard to grow? A: Not if you have plenty of room and don’t mind cleaning up after them in autumn. The common horse-chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum ...

This showy spring-blooming tree is both an ornamental and shade tree. Southern Living/Adrienne Legault The common horse chestnut tree grows beautifully in Upper and Middle South gardens, Zones 6-7 ...

A LARGE horse chestnut tree looks set to be saved from potentially being felled and protected for years to come. A temporary tree preservation order on the tree, which sits on Alexandra Road ...

Hardy campaigners have spent five days and nights camping out under ‘Harry’ the horse chestnut tree to stop it from being chopped down. And they’ve vowed to continue “for as long as it takes” to win ...

RUPERT BROOKE. THE horse-chestnut tree is not indigenous to Great Britain but was introduced in the middle of the sixteenth century; there is some doubt as to its origin, but the general opinion ...

Native to southeastern Europe, the horse chestnut tree produces bitter, toxic seeds. The tree grows from 50 to 75 feet tall and produces white flowers in the spring. Horse chestnuts are poisonous ...

Here, spring doesn’t begin on March 20 or 21, but when the Republic of Geneva’s official “marronier”, a horse chestnut tree that stands along the Treille promenade, in front of the ...