Almost naked last week, the larch still held enough color to stand out in the crowd of evergreens. Clusters of green needle-shaped leaves emerged during spring like a feathery fleece on the tree’s ...

If you garden in a colder climate, you know that compromises are part of the game. So, finding a tree that grows fast, thrives in the cold, and still offers splendid colors might seem like an ...

Ms. Smith writes about rural Britain. She wrote from Dunkeld, Scotland. As trees go, it wasn’t that impressive. Its branches were a little crooked, one stuck out at a right angle like a broken arm, ...

Western larches are stately trees, soaring 90 to nearly 200 feet tall, with branches that spill out in a neat cascade from a narrow crown. While the majority of conifers are evergreen — retaining ...

Larch trees in the permafrost forests of northeastern China -- the northernmost tree species on Earth -- are growing faster as a result of climate change. A new study of growth rings from Dahurian ...