Arbutus trees on Churchill Drive in Mount Douglas Park, where ­several of the majestic trees have been stricken. DARREN STONE, TIMES COLONIST Vancouver Island’s cherished arbutus trees are looking a ...

A member of the heath family, it belongs to the genus Arbutus, of which there are at least fourteen species of flowering shrubs and trees. Arbutus unedo is indigenous to southern Europe and Ireland.

Since I've lately been noticing bot dying madrones and healthy young arbutus marina I want to take the opportunity to discuss these two very similar trees. In my experience, arbutus marina has been ...

The historic Arbutus Oak, a tree that stood for three centuries, hosted Gen. Marquis de Lafayette and rerouted a highway, cracked over the summer and fell. The majestic white oak stood in the median ...

It is time to go walking in the woods to see spring wildflowers. A favorite for many people is a little one that tightly hugs the earth called trailing arbutus, or Pilgrim’s mayflower. This ...

A large arbutus tree at the ­corner Dunford Avenue and Jacklin Road in Langford fell piece by piece on Wednesday morning. The tree’s large canopy ­disappeared and chunks of its three trunks were cut ...

The Pacific madrone (Arbutus menziesii) can be a magnificent tree. I saw a rare, huge specimen in a wooded area way up Mt. Veeder Road. Thinking it might be of Champion proportions, I measured its ...