Some plants and herbs, like catnip and sage, have natural pest-repelling properties that may help keep spiders from entering ...

Oak trees have been around for more than 50 million years, with individual trees easily living 1,000 years. One of the oldest oak trees in the U.S. is believed to be at least 2,624 years old.

An American chestnut tree’s trunk shows signs of blight at the State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science & Forestry Lafayette Road Experiment Station in Syracuse, N.Y ...

The American chestnut tree, or číhtkęr in Tuscarora, once grew across what is currently the eastern United States, from Mississippi to Georgia, and into southeastern Canada. Now, a transgenic ...

In 1909, the Buffalo Courier reported that 10,000 chestnuts had died in Brooklyn Forest Park. In Fairmount Park, according to a 1911 Inquirer story, 1,000 chestnut trees died from blight.

Two American chestnuts growing side by side, a rare sight for this almost extinct tree. The one on the left is a little bigger and expected to become the new state champion in Illinois.

These days few chestnut trees manage to reach maturity due to a devastating fungus. Steve Inskeep got one expert on the phone who says some people are trying to grow chestnuts anyway.

American chestnut trees — which produce nuts inside spikey pods — still grow in the wild, but are considered “functionally extinct” because they do not typically live to maturity due to a ...

Unlike other members of the white oak group, the bark of Chestnut oak bark chestnut oak is dark and deeply ridged. The fruit of the chestnut oak is a relatively-large dark brown acorn with a smooth ...

The project aims to plant 1,000 American Chestnut trees in New York City over the course of several years. The species is considered functionally extinct due to a blight caused by a fungus ...

To tackle this problem, he uses deer spray and mesh nets. Emery and other volunteers planted around 6,000 chestnut trees in the orchard in effort to breed blight-resistant chestnut tree hybrids.

Different kinds of pear trees can grow all over the country. mrs via Getty Images Apples get all the ink, but savvy land managers have known for years that pears are at least as good a soft-mast ...