The box elder tree had plans for spring. Sometime in late summer, when I couldn't see the twigs for the leaves, the tree formed buds for next year's leaves. This year's leaves must have felt slighted, ...

There is a common native tree that helps wildlife survive winter by providing both food and shelter. That tree is the humble box elder, Acer negundo. Even though they are a type of maple, box elder ...

Q I was cleaning out a flower bed around my maple tree and the leaves and weeds were just crawling with some kind of red bug, hundreds of them. What are they? Are they doing anything to my plants or ...

The brittle leaves of our scarce prairie hardwood trees dropped months ago, so what are all the brown clusters hanging from the limbs of box elders? They’re seedpods, known as samaras, and they’re ...