The City of Springfield held its annual Arbor Day celebration Friday morning at Forest Park, where city leaders joined students in planting a “Ruby Red” Horse Chestnut tree. Five living trees ...

There's been impressive growth in the Ruby Horse Chestnut tree planted four years ago in July in Cos Cob's Strickland Park in memory of George Allen Smith IV. Its fullness is beginning to offer ...

The base of the flowers are pale yellow and red. One of the most identifiable traits of the horse chestnut tree are the conkers. Conkers are the spiky, green seed pods that hold up to three nuts.