Hug a tree; it’s good for you. Of course, unlike a specimen tree, with a “starter tree” there is not much there to lovingly wrap your arms around. Specimen trees are also a wise investment for anyone ...

Four trees have been designated for special protection as specimen trees by the Arlington County Board. The trees, all on private property, are designated as an “outstanding example of [their] species ...

SPECIMEN TREES are incorporated in a garden because of their beautiful flowers, architectural shapes, ornamental bark, prolific perfume or outstanding foliage. Specimen trees also may be planted to ...

Each of the 121 trees in the town's historic and specimen tree program is old, rare or both. Created in 1973 by the Garden Club of Palm Beach, the program helps to preserve the island’s beauty and ...

Although it's from China and therefore not native, compact paperbark maple is the perfect specimen tree for Canadian city gardens, boasting a tidy yet dramatic profile. As its name implies, it has ...

Once in awhile, on the way down the lane, my granddad would stop the truck, reach out the window and break off some twigs of sassafras. I don’t remember the root beer taste; it was more the novelty of ...

The Woodland City Council approved a resolution designating the location of new landmark and specimen trees at the Woodland Cemetery and Campbell Park. Council members passed the resolution ...

Pacific Daily News ADVERTISING Pacific Daily News Eds: An AP member exchange. With AP Photos. AGANA, Guam (AP) — While Guam’s most endangered tree survived Typhoon Dolphin, other trees that would have ...

Question: Looking for recommendations for a specimen tree to flank our front steps. Evergreen, 15 feet tall, maybe 10 feet wide. Will be near icee blue japanese yews and nearly wild rose bushes. Ideas ...

Walk into this 25-acre privately owned garden and your eye is immediately drawn upwards. Here is the giant fir, Abies grandis, the American native introduced by Perthshire-born David Douglas. Planted ...

Millicent Harvey's close up of smoke tree bloom. “To know the smoke tree is an experience; but one cannot know it at its strikingly best unless he has seen it in full flush of flower in June or early ...