Mr. Wegman is a member of the editorial board. Off Route 6 on Cape Cod, a few miles in from the bay near Yarmouth, Mass., there hides a giant ancient English weeping beech. The tree is so big that it ...

A bit of Queens history will fall victim to the woodsman’s power saw this morning when the landmark 151-year-old tree that lends its name to Flushing’s Weeping Beech Park will be topped by Parks ...

It may be the shadiest place in Flushing. A massive weeping beech tree is located in the park on 37th Avenue bearing its name. The tree is part of the legacy of another weeping beech that lived in ...

It's no day at the beach for beech trees on Cape Cod these days. A malady known as beech leaf disease (BLD), first detected in Ohio in 2012, has made its way to Massachusetts, where it was first seen ...

A beech tree has been saved after nearly 3,000 people signed a petition. Original proposals included the felling of 160 trees alongside The Old Marine School in South Shields to make way for new homes ...

While New York City’s landmarks are usually thought of as individual buildings or historic districts (and the occasional park), there are some unusual ones in the mix. Two of those landmarks are ...

In a world full of division, anger and heartbreak, it’s cathartic to have something uncontroversial that we can all sit back and admire. That’s what the European Tree of the Year award gives us with ...

A tree can take a few years to show you the shape it means to be. Ten years ago, wandering through the old demesne forest at Cong, we found a drift of self-sown beech seedlings, a few inches high, and ...

An old friend has fallen. The weeping beech tree in Thornden Park, estimated to be 170 years old and one of the largest of its kind in the world, toppled over earlier this month. "It's a huge, sad ...

Why do some trees weep? Because they want to grow down. Instead of reaching for the sky, as most trees do, young stems of weeping trees toy only briefly with upward growth before arching gracefully ...

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