WEST MONROE — Two huge trees — a holly and a hornbeam — highlight a new state park taking shape in West Monroe. The 95-acre site south of Interstate 20 near the Cheniere exit was donated to the state ...

Children from Parkside Preschool took turns helping Palatine Mayor Jim Schwantz add mulch to the base of a pre-planted American hornbeam tree during an Arbor Day celebration Friday at Community Park.

My neighbor has a beautiful hop hornbeam tree growing next to his driveway. Up until a couple years ago, I had never heard of this tree and spent some time trying to convince him it was an immature ...

Editor's note: Once a month, the OSU Extension Master Gardener's office of Franklin County profiles a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. Nestled in the forests of central Ohio among larger ...

* What it is: A mid-sized, U.S. native shade tree with orange-red fall foliage and a smooth, gray trunk (nicknamed "musclewood" for how the trunk looks like it's flexing a thigh muscle). Slow-growing ...

THERE ARE TWO members of the birch family that often go unnoticed in the understory of our forests: the Eastern hop hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana) and American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana). Both of ...

Q: A landscape company planted a hornbeam tree for me last year. The rootball is sticking pretty far up out of the ground. I can see it exposed. The tree's not doing very well. Should it be that much ...