Every fall, there comes a moment as lovely and fleeting as a visit from a butterfly: when the ginkgo trees are golden. The incandescent yellow lasts for just a few days — sometimes only one — and then ...

Ginkgo trees are either male or female, and they reproduce when a sperm from a male tree, carried by grains of pollen floating on the wind, connects with a seed on a female tree and fertilizes it, not ...

“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” — Charles Bowden. “Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.” — John Mayer. “It’s always summer somewhere.” — Lily Pulitzer.

On the streets of Manhattan and Washington, D.C., in neighborhoods in Seoul and parks in Paris, ginkgo trees are gradually losing their bright yellow leaves in reaction to the first bout of frigid ...