A fungus-carrying beetle is infecting black walnut trees in Boulder and other cities with “thousand cankers disease,” a devastating affliction that starves the trees. The city of Boulder has ...

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Q. Two years ago, I bought two Carpathian English Walnut trees from a mail-order nursery. One was strong, the other weak. The small tree's leaves turned black and dropped off, but the tree itself did ...

Planting the right type of tree can possibly make your home look more attractive and is among the key landscaping tips to affordably boost your property value over time. You might also reap other key ...

Q. I have a large, 25-foot English walnut tree. I’ve been told that in order to have an English walnut the tree has to be crossed with a black walnut. Is this correct? Also, in the past the tree would ...

Headlines were made this summer when nearly 400 Boulder trees succumbed to the twig beetle/canker complex, although nearly the entire population of black walnut trees in Colorado Springs has died.

Last summer, it was foliage-full and ripe with tasty walnuts. This summer, the 41-year-old tree is deader than a door nail. That tree used to have the sweetest walnuts in Bainbridge, said Mohr, a ...

Walnuts give almonds a run for their money as the most indispensable nut in the pantry. We call them English walnuts. The English call them Persian walnuts. I wonder what the Persians call them.

A tree student learns a set of categories: the 50-mph tree, the 30-mph tree, the stop-and-think tree. The distinctions here concern how fast-moving and far away you can be and still be able to ...

Q. Two years ago, I bought two Carpathian English Walnut trees from a mail-order nursery. One was strong, the other weak. The small tree's leaves turned black and dropped off, but the tree itself did ...