Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close up of the brilliant red foliage of Japanese maple - Dan Gabriel Atanasie/Shutterstock There's nothing quite as breathtaking ...

Since mid-July, I’ve noticed something strange in several maple trees I’ve driven by: their leaves are starting to show fall color! Sometimes it’s just the tips of the branches turning red or yellow; ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The silver maple tree (Acer saccharinum) is one of the most common trees in North America. It generally grows 50 to 80 feet tall, ...

Editor’s note for print readers: This column was inadvertently omitted from Friday’s newspaper. Now that we’ve had six weeks’ exposure to hot, dry conditions, that’s when the challenging questions ...