A woman prunes a bare fruit tree with shears on a cold winter day with snow on the ground. - Irina Nazarova/Getty Images While the rest of your garden is sleeping peacefully under a blanket of snow or ...

Many favorite edible garden plants live for as little as a single year; a few can last a decade if you're lucky. But there's one type of harvest-producing plant that blows these modest lifespans out ...

These skyscraping superstars are the stalwart examples of their species Trees have many interesting features and uses, but it's perhaps their height that inspires the most reverie. Humans may have a ...

The Reader has started this series of its best stories from the past 52 years — 2600 cover stories and some remarkable interior features — to help make up for the loss of its physical edition, which ...

Some trees are so weird that they look more like something from a fairy tale than a living plant. There are umbrella-like trees, bottle-like trees, giant mushroom-like trees, and upside down-rooted ...