Plants add curb appeal, but some will overgrow your home or uproot your foundation. These vines, trees, and shrubs shouldn't be planted too close to your house.

Juniper is a broad genus that includes everything from large trees up to 30 feet tall to ground-hugging shrubs that spread wide but never get higher than 18 inches. While species like the fast ...

Knowing the names and stories of trees can add a whole new layer to your hikes. Here are eight that you might spot on ...

A nondescript, decrepit twist of gnarled wood found tucked between rocks in the Finnish tundra is a lot more than meets the ...

Hence, the need to focus on a very common and long-lived species, but capable of producing rings like trees: the juniper was perfect for our studies," explains Angela Luisa Prendin, one of the ...

1,647-year-old common juniper in Finland identified as Europe's oldest woody plant. (photo credit: The University of Padua) Scientists have identified the oldest tree in Europe—a small common ...

Though juniper is a native Western species, fire suppression and other factors have caused the trees to behave like invasive weeds since European settlement of the West. Each tree consumes between ...