Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Find out how to grow a native sweet gum tree so you can enjoy its shade and beautiful fall foliage. Dean Schoeppner Sweet gum ...

Springfield folklore says the city’s population of sweet gum trees (and their annoying, spiky “gum ball” seed pods) dates from the great elm tree die-off of the late 1940s. Sweet gums indeed were one ...

Sweet gum is a common tree in the forests of central New Jersey and points south, and from the Atlantic to Texas. It also grows in the mountains of Mexico and Central America, a survivor from a time ...