Armed with hand shovels, buckets, and patience, a dozen dedicated volunteers gathered beneath the Garry oak canopy at Cattle ...

From now through the end of December is the time of year to inspect your trees for Sudden Oak Death. The mold pathogen that causes Sudden Oak Death, phytophthora ramorum, is most active during wet ...

DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called Pando — have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed ...

Parts of the area now look like an extension of the Balearic Sea after unprecedented rainfall turned what should be dry ground into a vast expanse of water ... after aerial images paint a more ...

A tree in the Scottish Highlands known as the Skipinnish Oak has been named UK Tree of the Year. Native woodland experts had no idea the tree existed until a gathering in 2009. It is thought to be ...

A centuries-old tree in the Scottish Highlands named after a popular ceilidh band has won this year's UK Tree of the Year. The Skipinnish Oak, which the Woodland Trust believes is more than 400 ...

Named after the well-known ceilidh band, the Skipinnish Oak in Achnacarry, Lochaber, is an ancient reminder of the once-mighty Caledonian Forest. At least 400 years old, this extraordinary tree is ...

The Highland oak will now go on to compete in the European Tree of the Year contest early next year The oak was not known to modern tree experts until a chance encounter with the Skipinnish ceilidh ...

A centuries-old Skipinnish Oak named after a Scottish band has won this year’s Tree of the Year contest. The oak, thought to be at least 400 years old and hidden away in a Sitka spruce ...

A tree named after a Scottish band who revealed its existence to experts has been crowned as Britain’s best. The centuries-old Skipinnish Oak, named after a ceilidh band of the same name ...

A Dutch tree enthusiast who travelled hundreds of miles to visit a famous oak tree in the Scottish Highlands will be reunited with the band that gave it its name – just as the Skipinnish Oak was ...