The storms of the past few years failed to destroy a magnificent weeping hemlock, a landmark tree in Branford that’s close to 150 years old. However, Superstorm Sandy blew down a nearby apple tree, ...

Weeping trees add shade and beauty to any property. Here's your guide to varieties.

The weeping Canadian hemlock, one of the most beautiful conifers, is unfortunately often plagued by infestations of woolly adelgid. Luckily, Michael Gentile’s specimen has been immune. The Ts… ...

Accidently introduced to Virginia in the 1950s through the importation of ornamental Japanese weeping hemlocks, the hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) is a purplish insect less than a millimeter long. It’s ...

Create a focal point, add a bit of elegance or interject some whimsy into the garden with weeping trees and shrubs.

The Rhode Island Tree Council has identified about 150 champion trees throughout the state. Here are a few you can marvel at.

Tsuga canadensis “pendula,” aka sargent’s weeping hemlock, takes on a decidedly animated character with age, as its wingspan and variation in texture increases. (Great Plant Picks photo) ...

Mr. Wegman is a member of the editorial board. Off Route 6 on Cape Cod, a few miles in from the bay near Yarmouth, Mass., there hides a giant ancient English weeping beech. The tree is so big that ...

The Canadian or Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) is, in my opinion, an under-utilized landscape tree. Perhaps they are spurned as too common, or rejected because they get too big. But they have ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — An invasive pest that’s killing hemlock trees along Lake Michigan has been discovered at a University of Michigan arboretum in Ann Arbor. The Michigan Department of Agriculture ...

For people who like weeping trees, there is a variety of hemlock that fits the bill. "Sargentii" is a named variety that has been reproduced by grafting from a tree that was discovered in 1870 near ...