By the time winter gets into full swing, many trees have dropped their leaves, and flowers are a distant memory. But that doesn't mean you can't enjoy a backyard winter wonderland. The chaste tree ...

Individual trees are consistently "male-first" or "female-first" in flowering, something noted by Charles Darwin in 1877. In the 1980s, a UC Davis graduate student, Scott Gleeson, noted that this ...

Colorado is not the first place that comes to mind when you think of blossoming cherry trees. The state is more known for its flowering crabapples, which can seem like cherries from a distance due to ...

April is all about cherry blossoms in London. The beloved flowering tree of Japan is quite widespread in the UK capital's parks and gardens. The flowering time usually begins in late March and peaks ...

Each day, Times Insider editors scour the newspaper for the most interesting facts to appear in articles. This year, tidbits about grudge-holding crows, the first-ever first kiss and George ...

Among the material washed out to sea were trees staked to the beach in previous years that had accumulated sand to form new dunes. Lindsey Kinane is a senior reporter with The Facts. Contact her ...