The favorite evergreen for deer to snack on has seen some damage during this authentic Michigan winter. Is there anything that can be done to make the evergreens fill back out? Don’t feel bad if, once ...

With the help of a $600,000 state grant, Northbrook Park District plans to spend $2.9 million to overhaul Techny Prairie Park and Fields in the coming years. The 113-acre park, 1700 Techny Road, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. vovashevchuk / Getty Images If you'd like to add privacy, shade, or just a windbreak shrub to your yard, arborvitae are a great ...

If you'd like to add privacy, shade, or just a windbreak shrub to your yard, arborvitae are a great way to do that. Arborvitae belong to the cypress family and are versatile evergreen trees and shrubs ...

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A fitness brand is betting big on the pickleball fever spreading across the Chicago suburbs. Minnesota-based Life Time Group Holdings is acquiring two large Five Seasons Sports Club facilities in Burr ...

Our front garden is resplendent with a variety of evergreen shrubs and trees: Japanese Boxwood, Blue Arrow Juniper, Monterey Cypress, Sea Green Juniper, Witchita Blue Juniper, Cedrus Deodara, Blue ...

Now that Christmas and New Year's is over, it is time to have a little talk about the North Pole. No, I am not referring to the home place of the Jolly St. Nick but North Pole arborvitae, Proven ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. White-cedar is a slow-growing tree that reaches 25 to 40 feet in height and ...

Northern white-cedar is a slow growing native North American boreal tree with the scientific name Thuja occidentalis. Arborvitae is another name for the tree in its cultivated and commercially grown ...