Pollinators provide many benefits. One of the best ways to help pollinators is planting trees that will house and feed them ...

Like other Michigan native plants, trees have extensive root networks that break up the soil and create pathways for rainwater to soak into the ground. Once it enters the ground, water then takes one ...

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A native Michigan apple tree, the Malus coronaria, learned to fight frost by blooming two or three weeks later than the trees that produce cultivated varieties of apples like Honeycrisp or Red ...

Light: For the best results, 'grow sassafrass in full to part shade, ideally somewhere with plenty of sunshine each day. It ...

KALAMAZOO, MI – It's official: Kalamazoo County is home to the three tallest dwarf hackberry trees in the state. On March 14, Andy Sawyer, the official representative for the Big Tree Registry ...

TIPTON, MI - Almost 70 years ago, bonsai trees entered Jack Wikle’s life. The native of a small farm in Hillsdale County, he graduated with a biology degree from Michigan State University at the ...

Paw paw -- the namesake of Paw Paw, Michigan -- is a fruit native to Southern Michigan and across the southeastern U.S., and it’s in peak season right now.

Below I’ll go over the trees and shrubs that Michigan has listed online, how to identify them and what threat they pose to you or the ecosystem. More ‘Talk About Michigan’ coverage ...

In the quest to make apple trees more resilient in a warming climate, some Michigan researchers are looking for a late bloomer. A native Michigan apple tree, the Malus coronaria, learned to fight ...

In the 1900s, a logger baron named Edward Lowe supposedly planted every single species of tree native to Michigan on an estate that would eventually become a part of the college's campus.

A native Michigan apple tree, the Malus coronaria, learned to fight frost by blooming two or three weeks later than the trees that produce cultivated varieties of apples like Honeycrisp or Red ...