Often overlooked in spring, sassafras trees in Southeast Missouri bear baseball-sized flower clusters and later light up country roads with red, orange and yellow autumn leaves.

Spring-flowering trees bring color and beauty to our late winter and spring landscapes. The earliest flowering types typically begin to bloom in late January or February (although they are blooming a ...

What is more breathtaking than to see flowering trees in full regale in the spring. There are several trees that get an early start like some of the early Japanese cherries, cornelian cherry dogwood, ...

This spring's National Cherry Blossom Festival was expected to attract an estimated 700,000 visitors for the March 27-April 11 celebration. And as always, the horticultural star of the show was the ...