Any healthy tree more than 11 inches in diameter from the Acer family will do: sugar maple, black maple, red maple, silver maple — even a box elder, which are maples, too.

Create a stunning Christmas tree from glitter foamiran with this easy-to-follow DIY tutorial! This step-by-step guide shows ...

How to Make a Family Tree for Kids or Adults. Once you’ve decided on all of the details that will make up your tree, the final step is to make it. In general, ...

Keep a close eye on your tree, especially when you first bring it home, to ensure you don't go too long without watering. Pruning This next technique is key — after all, this is how you keep ...

It seems pretty simple to plant a tree. Dig a hole. Drop in a tree. Fill the hole. Add water. Go back inside and have a beer. What could go wrong? Yet year after year, we see trees planted ...

(Image credit: Shutterstock) 3. Potted trees may be smaller than cut (usually about 3-5 feet), but this isn’t necessarily a bad thing if you want to keep growing it and use it again next year.

A few years after they plant a young tree or shrub, many homeowners make an unexpected discovery: As it grows taller, it also gets wider. If you don’t plan for how far a tree will spread, your ...

To make a tree look well-lit (but not over the top), you need about 100 lights per foot: A 6-foot tree requires 600 lights, a 7-foot tree should have 700, and so on.