Today is Arbor Day, that milestone that reminds us that late April is an ideal time to add a new tree – or new trees – to the landscape. Trees offer a variety of benefits, including cooling shade in ...

Fringe tree, or Old Man's Beard, (Chionanthus virginicus) has always played twelfth fiddle to dogwood, saucer magnolia, flowering cherry, Bradford pear, and numerous others choices for ...

What: Chionanthus retusus, the Chinese fringe tree, is a reliable and easy to grow small tree that is covered with clusters of fringed white flowers in early summer. It has a lovely rounded habit, and ...

Q. The tree has been here since we moved here two years ago and no one seems to know what it is. It is in bloom now with white feather-like blooms. The leaves drop in the fall. It gets full sun in the ...

*Growth habit: A small spreading to rounded deciduous tree often with multiple trunks and growing to 15 feet tall and wide. The leaves are medium green, elliptic in shape and grow to 8 inches long and ...