If it were not for its usefulness as a glittering seasonal accessory once a year, the conifer would be hard put to make many Christmas wish lists. “If you asked the average person for their earliest ...

As the last leaf of autumn floats to the ground, the burden of carrying the garden through the winter falls to evergreens. This may be an overstatement. The silhouette of bare trees and the tracery of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ’Tis the season for conifers—whether they are being decorated for a little Christmas cheer or merely serving as a vibrant, verdant ...

The weather forecast has several days with morning lows in the 60s, which is a cause for celebration. We can look for those long-lost fleece vests and, even better, it gives horticulturists like The ...

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 ...

The weather forecast has several days with morning lows in the 50s which is a cause for celebration. We can look for those long-lost fleece vests and it gives horticulturists like myself the ticket to ...

Today in Illinois, we have very few native conifers; the fact that these cones can only be found where humans have planted ...

The trees surrounding Wheatland tower overhead, yet in one corner, the plants can be crushed by the tiniest feet. Here, in the dwarf conifer garden, a circle of twigs surrounds a 5-inch tall ...