Trees

A woman waters beet seedlings in Denver on April 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Brittany Peterson, File)

Gardeners often hear about supposed hacks and quick fixes. Here are some common ones debunked

Gardening season is here, and so is the bad advice. Social media is full of supposed hacks and quick fixes that often do more harm than good.

A hillside lot where Matthew Bernard and Lynn Warner cut down trees in violation of the city's environmental laws is seen Thursday, April 16, 2026, in Oakland, Calif. (Darwin BondGraham/The Oaklandside via AP)

California landowners who cut 38 trees in Oakland hills hit with $915,000 fine

A person walks through the blooming Yoshino cherry trees at the University of Washington, April 5, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

Study says trees counter half the world’s urban heating, but not in the places that need it most

Volunteers dig up native tree seedlings as part of a collection effort Wednesday, April 22, 2026, in Newport, R.I. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Trees are magic. In Newport, volunteers are working to expand their healthy reach

This 1913 handout image from the U.S. National Archives and Records shows a man performing tree surgery on a valuable cultivated chestnut tree affected by the chestnut bark disease in Westchester, PA, 1913. (U.S. National Archives and Recordsvia AP)

A lost icon: The American chestnut and its central place in the eastern landscape

In Rhode Island, nonprofit works to increase tree equity

Newport, Rhode Island, has neighborhoods of opulent mansions with lots of mature trees along with neighborhoods of subsidized housing and far fewer trees. The Newport Tree Conservancy is working to create a healthier forest in the city. (AP Video: Joshua A. Bickel)

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Stephen Johnson and Sam Osborn, bottom, measure a Commiphora myrrha tree during what is called ecological transects, measuring a quadrant, counting the number of trees, measuring their trunk, crowns, as well as health on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026, in Dharaaye, Ethiopia. (AP Photo/Julianne Gauron)

The myrrh tree that’s key to luxury perfumes and African incomes is threatened by drought

Pink dogwood blooms right of the second fairway are seen during a practice round ahead of the Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club, Wednesday, April 8, 2026, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Masters in bloom: More than azaleas and dogwood make up golf’s most beautiful garden

An aging cherry blossom tree is seen at the Inokashira Park, one of Tokyo’s most popular viewing spots, Saturday, April 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi)

Collapse of Tokyo’s aging cherry blossom trees during viewing season raises safety concerns

People walk among the cherry blossom trees along the tidal basin on the National Mall on Thursday, March 26, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Tom Brenner)

Washington’s cherry blossoms hit peak bloom, sending a fleeting burst of pink across the capital

Anastasios Chalkidis, head of the Agricultural Association of Veria tends the blooming peach trees near the city of Veria, northern Greece, on Sunday, March 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

A pink veil across the fields: Thousands flock to Greece’s peach blossoms

In this handout photo provided by the Estacada Fire District, an Oregon Army National Guard helicopter rescues an injured logger from Mount Hood National Forest, Thursday, March 12, 2026, after rough terrain prevented other means of rescue. (Estacada Fire District via AP)

Oregon Army National Guard hoists injured logger to safety in Mount Hood National Forest

A Kirtland's warbler in the jack pine forests of northern Michigan, near Mio, Mich., on May 19, 2008. (AP Photo/John Flesher File)

US plans to clear-cut in Michigan forest. Some fear for endangered species

Dense tree barriers to cut air pollution are coming to West Oakland

A man reacts as he sits on the Lahaina historic banyan tree damaged by a wildfire on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Famed banyan tree still ‘in the ICU’

An egret takes off in a wetland with newly-planted trees Friday, Jan. 23, 2026, in Meraux, La. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

What can toughen Louisiana coast against worsening storms? 4 years and 30,000 trees

Vernon Coffey, left, William Powell and Andy Newhouse prepare to harvest genetically modified chestnut samples at the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science & Forestry Lafayette Road Experiment Station in Syracuse, N.Y., Sept. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus, File)

Scientists say genetic analysis could greatly speed restoration of iconic American chestnut

This Dec. 19, 2025, image provided by Jessica Damiano shows evergreen branches serving as winter mulch over a raised bed planting of garlic cloves on Long Island, N.Y. (Jessica Damiano via AP)

Christmas is over, but what to do with the tree? Here’s some alternatives to the landfill

Melissa Webb assembles an artificial Christmas tree at Lee Display's warehouse, in Fairfield, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)

Americans like artificial Christmas trees even though few are made in US and prices are up

An East Texas Christmas tree farm closes after 40 years, despite booming sales

This image taken from video provided by WXYZ-TV shows a Norway spruce tree being transplanted at city hall in Dearborn Heights, Mich, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (WXYZ-TV via AP)

Detroit suburb finds a real Christmas tree — instead of a fake one from China — just in time

The traditional lighting up ceremony starts, with a choir singing carols, for the annual Norwegian gifted Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square, in London, England, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Thomas Krych)

Norway donates a Christmas tree to London every year. Here’s how the tradition began

The Capitol Christmas tree, a 53-foot red fir from the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Nevada, is illuminated in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The story of how a Nevada fir became the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree

First lady Melania Trump receives the official 2025 White House Christmas Tree, a white fir from Korson's Tree Farms in Michigan, on the North Portico of the White House, Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Melania Trump welcomes Christmas tree to the White House

Buyers bid for holiday decorations at Buffalo Valley Produce Auction, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, in Mifflinburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Holiday spirit is being sold to the highest bidder at this Christmas tree auction

Workers hold the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree with ropes at Rockefeller Plaza, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Rockefeller Center Christmas tree arrives in Manhattan, kicking off New York’s holiday season

An Eastern Black Swallowtail caterpillar feeds on a fennel plant in Spring, Texas on Aug. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Give caterpillars a ‘soft landing’ under your trees. The ecosystem will thank you

A man walks through a fir plantation on a Christmas tree farm at the beginning of the harvest season for Christmas in Sundern, in the Sauerland region, Germany, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Christmas harvest begins in Germany, where some say decorating trees began

This photo provided by Tishman Speyer on Monday, Oct. 27, 2025, shows this year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree before it is cut down in East Greenbush, N.Y. (Tishman Speyer via AP)

A majestic Norway spruce from upstate New York chosen as Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree

Joe Kostka searches for ripe pawpaws in his home orchard where he's grown the native fruit for 21 years, in Natrona Heights, Pa,, Sept. 30, 2025. (Quinn Glabicki/Pittsburgh's Public Source via AP)

Pittsburghers preserving pawpaw trees, some hope it will lead to more zebra swallowtail butterflies

In this photo provided by Honolulu Civil Beat, people garden at one of Skyline's test sites for the Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge at Hō'ae'ae Station in West Loch, Hawaii, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. (Thomas Heaton/Civil Beat via AP)

Changing course, Honolulu is now planting food in public spaces

Cut down trees lie within view of the Cordillera Azul National Park, seen in the background near Chambira community, in Peru's Amazon, Oct. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

As Amazon’s ‘flying rivers’ weaken with tree loss, scientists warn of worsening droughts

A traveler looks out at an airplane at Salt Lake City International Airport, in Salt Lake City, July 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Travelers bothered by their flight’s pollution can pay to reduce it elsewhere. Do offsets work?

Priests and officials in the Shinto priesthood march during Yamaguchisai, a kickoff ceremony of the Shikinen Sengu ritual, which concludes in 2033, at Kotaijingu, also known as Naiku, or the inner sanctuary, of the Jingu shrine complex in Ise, central Japan, Friday, May 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Japan’s most sacred Shinto shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years for more than a millennium

A wild yellow-crested cockatoo perches on a tree in Victoria Park in Hong Kong, on Aug. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei)

One of the rarest birds in the world finds a city sanctuary in Hong Kong

Seattle’s housing crisis leads to conflict between living spaces and mature trees

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