Conifers are wonderful plants — attractive, hardy, functional. They’re terrific additions to any garden or landscape. Really. You may look around your neighborhood and laugh, seeing that 60-foot pine ...

Lush, sprawling forests, trails littered with cones and the clean, waxy smell of evergreens in the crisp morning air: Colorado. This state is known for its towering lodgepole pines, pale blue spruces ...

Nearly 200 different varieties of conifers -- including Abies Fabri -- grow at the Ocean Coast Botanical Gardens north of Mendocino in Northern California. (Ocean Coast Botanical Gardens) If you have ...

As promised a few weeks ago, I want to introduce you to a few more conifers that are real gems. But before launching into some specific varieties, my botanical nerdiness requires me to share what I ...

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These small conifer trees for birds provide food and refuge in all seasons. These varieties are perfect for small landscapes.

Theories abound, but there is no hard and fast way to tell when certain kinds of trees will fruit — the only thing you can be sure of is that it does not happen very often. Tasmania's conifer trees ...

The old image of the fast-growing leylandii hedge blocking out the light and sparking a host of neighbours’ disputes may have gone some way to giving conifers a bad reputation. Yet there are many ...