As the holiday season draws to a close, consider options beyond the landfill when disposing of your real Christmas trees.

For decades, a lone juniper tree on Arizona's I-17 was secretly decorated for the holidays. The tree, nicknamed "Scrubby," was destroyed in a 2019 wildfire after surviving previous blazes. In 2021, ...

Truphena Muthoni has set a Guinness World Record by hugging a tree for three straight days. https://p.dw.com/p/55BDq Muthoni wore a blindfold for several hours during ...

Paying for gifts, decorations and gingerbread houses can become quite expensive, so the U.S. Department of the Interior is hoping to ease some financial burden by making Christmas trees more ...

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How do you like your Christmas lights? We all have our preferences, and we’re spoiled for choice, making it easy to decorate our trees exactly the way we want. You can pick white lights, multi-color ...

Natural, living Christmas tree are beautiful, smell good. But with time they dry out and can become dull or brown. You've likely heard tips and suggestions like adding an aspirin or a splash of bleach ...

One of the most difficult decisions you'll probably make this holiday season is between real and fake. Should you get a real Christmas tree, as more than 30 million people will do this year, according ...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Especially in my neighborhood! Houses are decorated with Christmas trimmings and twinkling lights adorn the public trees. But when is the right time to put ...

Winter is a rough time for herbaceous plants. Most don’t have the tolerance for the extreme cold in upper North America, and many die back in late winter in the South. But if you have time, you can ...

Alabama has an abundance of Christmas tree farms, but the landscape has changed a lot over the past decade. While some longtime tree farms have closed, several new farms have sprouted up from one end ...