My friend Jane Antley lives in the borough of West Chester. She emailed me last month with a question about leaf drop. “I’ve been meaning to write to you for several weeks about something that has me ...

What causes Japanese maple tree leaves to turn brown? Veronica Allen of Huntington Beach wrote our Garden Clinic about a Japanese maple, about 10 years old, whose leaves turn brown on the edges in ...

Q: Our dwarf Japanese maple tree has grown beautifully for at least 15 years, but then one day last month, boom, the leaves started looking kind of curled. Now they're all both curled and crunchy. I'm ...

You won’t stop at just one, once you discover what they can do for your garden: “People get obsessed.” By Margaret Roach Matthew and Timothy Nichols’s story could be a case study of what it means to ...

Sometimes, even after our best efforts, we end up planting the wrong tree. Last fall, in my search for the perfect Japanese Maple, I incorrectly planted a Chinese Maple instead. Being someone not ...

We love the vibrant colors of maple trees in the fall. These deciduous beauties bring not only great color but also a recognizable leaf shape and (our favorite) whirlybird seeds that helicopter their ...