As November comes to a close, we find ourselves just three weeks away from the official arrival of winter. Many of us have seen our first snowflakes already, and last week, we had a wintry mix that ...

As I write this column I am looking out my office window at a world that is enduring its first winter storm of the season. Back in October, we saw the first flakes of snow, but that wasn’t really ...

Every fall, Washington’s larch trees transform from green to golden yellow before shedding their needles, creating a short-lived but spectacular display. The Enchantments in the Alpine Lakes ...

Q: Regarding your request for photos of tamarack trees, here is a photo I took on Oct. 22 just east of Meadowlands, Minnesota. The tamaracks were blazing, and I loved the contrast with what I think ...

There are a few “tips” included in this blog that doubles as a gardening column. Jason is the nephew of my late friend Larry, also known as Lester, whom I often mentioned in these columns in previous ...

Now is the best time to visit Larch Trail Loop at the Metolius Preserve to see the changing fall colors of the Western larch ...

In a time when attention spans are shorter than this sentence, think about bonsai. They’re special enough to be passed down from generation to generation. “In five years, that’s going to be a really ...

Towering over a centuries-old treestand in western Montana is an ancient Western Larch that goes by the name Gus. At more than 150 feet tall, Gus has survived the Christian Crusades, seen the fall of ...