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If you’ve ordered trees from a nursery for fall planting, they may be delivered with natural bare roots, sometimes dipped in hydrating gel before shipment to keep the roots moist and healthy. Because their fibrous roots aren’t confined by soil or a container, their root systems become established easier in the warm soil and get off to a vigorous start in the spring because they adjust better to transplanting.

It’s that time of year again, when the harvest season brings exceptional colour to our forests and the air is aromatic and easy to breathe. Now’s the time to prepare your trees for winter snowfall, wind and storms that bring colder temperatures across Southcentral BC....

Trees provide shelter, habitat and food for many species. We are fortunate in BC’s central interior to see a variety of nesting birds, including owls, chickadees, Northern flickers and jays. Steller’s jays like the one pictured here, are in the corvus, or crow family,...