Many gardeners prefer growing flowers and small plants, particularly those that produce tasty fruit like tomatoes. Trees are often an afterthought, with few opting to grow one themselves. On average, ...

One of my favorite trees is the iconic American Beech (Fagus grandifolia). I love its smooth, light bluish gray bark — the silvery green leaf in spring that gradually changes to a dark green in summer ...

Trees come in all shapes and sizes. The fashion for planting them has waxed and waned over the centuries, but has fitfully gathered pace since the 1970s, when a growing sense of Britain’s relative ...

GREEN. WE ARE AT SANBORN MILLS FARM IN LOUDON. I’M JOINED BY SEAN O’BRIEN WITH UNH COOPERATIVE EXTENSION. SEAN, WE’RE HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE BEECH TREE TODAY. VERY COMMON SPECIES HERE IN NEW ENGLAND.

I planted a beech hedge in March using young bare-root plants. I made sure to water it during the very warm dry weather in late spring, but even so, some of the leaves turned brown and many of the ...