Sep. 28—GROTON — Noank resident Christopher Andrews has looked out at two copper beech trees at Spicer Park from his home for the past 50 years. He called copper beech trees the "queen of the forest" ...

“It’s a statement tree,” says Rick Finneran, manager of facilities at the Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum, referring to the Copper Beech tree on the northwest corner of the property at 396 ...

Beech trees, one of the most abundant and crucial hardwood trees in New Hampshire, are getting pummeled by beech leaf disease this season. “The trees actually look quite terrible,” said Jeff Garnas, ...

That's the way Meredith Cochran describes the young stand of beech trees that is dying on the upper reaches of land she owns in Hancock behind her house. Three years ago, Cochran first noticed the ...

In a Holden Arboretum greenhouse lined with rows of potted trees, researcher David Burke points to dark banding patterns on one leaf – a sign of a relatively new disease that is afflicting area beech ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the gardens of Blenheim Palace, Winston Churchill’s birthplace in Oxfordshire, England, there stands an immense copper beech, Fagus sylvatica ‘Purpurea.’ ...

New Pittsford brewery Copper Leaf aims to become community fixture Copper Leaf Brewing is named after the village's iconic copper beech tree, which was taken down in 2018 after succumbing to a fungus.

Earthwise Aware president Claire O’Neill points out some beech leaves that have a small amount of beech leaf disease at the Middlesex Fells in Winchester. Credit: Jesse Costa, WBUR This article is ...

Beech leaf disease, caused by a type of microscopic worm, has spread rapidly across the eastern U.S. and parts of Canada since first detected in Ohio in 2012. The disease interferes with chlorophyll ...