How the Monkey Puzzle Tree found its way to Elizabeth Park was, well, a puzzle. “It’s been in our greenhouse for 30 years; we have no idea when it came here. Nobody has any history,” Kathy Kraczkowsky ...

This Gardening News column is from the online archives of The Star of North Augusta, a collection of more than 25,000 articles published from October 2007 to February 2022. Last month I wrote about ...

Should we really be planting Monkey Puzzle Trees at the University? This is the kind of question that I carry with me on my morning walks and sometimes even bring to bed at night. Almost two years ago ...

The ancient monkey puzzle tree has distinctive spiny leaves and intricate scaly branches. Its unusual features, scientists believe, evolved as a defense against towering, long-necked dinosaurs.

This project celebrates the unusual character of Monkey Puzzle, a wood that reveals swirling patterns and round inclusions as ...

Some trees are good for tree-houses. Some trees are not. Guess which category this one fits into? It’s a conifer, and like all conifers will produce no flowers. Rather the seeds (and pollen) are ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Depending on your point of view, the national tree of Chile has a ...

The familiar floppy flowers of the magnolia tree are thought to be as old as the dinosaurs, which likely grazed among them. The domestic apple tree, that staple of American culture and lore, actually ...