I trimmed my boxwood shrubs at home this past weekend and the whir of my hedge trimmer lulled me into thinking about the plethora of questions I routinely receive from gardeners and homeowners about ...

Bonsai-trained evergreen species of trees and shrubs are yet another example of the magical ways in which artfully pruned plants can enliven even the tiniest of city gardens in winter, using hardy ...

One of the simplest examples of how plants adapt to ensure that their species survives is found in pine cones. Evergreen trees that produce cones are called conifers. There are more than 600 species ...

Have you taken down your Christmas tree yet? We haven’t, but that’s no surprise. We usually don’t get our tree taken down in a timely fashion. Our family record is the middle of March. Then again, we ...

Answer: Yes! Swiss Stone Pine (Pinus cembra) is an excellent landscape evergreen! It is a lovely, slow-growing European pine tree with a dense, compact, and pyramidal habit of growth. It keeps its ...

San Francisco- and Oslo-based firm Mork Ulnes Architects has unveiled a black timber home tucked into a forestscape in Norden, California. To connect the home with its stunning scenery, the ...

About 10 years later, the homeowner planted another tree beside the Norway spruce — a pine tree that came with a McDonald’s Happy Meal. It was McDonald’s response to then-President H. W. Bush’s 1990 ...

PINE CITY, Minn. (WCCO) --Evergreens are dying at rates the DNR calls alarming. Last week the focus was on the epidemic in western Wisconsin but on Thursday, WCCO talked with a couple who've already ...

Do you like to check out ways to save some money while meeting your needs? Use a living Christmas tree for holiday decorations and then plant it in the landscape. Tree varieties that fit the dual role ...

Shillong: Want to see what ‘real' Christmas trees look like? Come to the ‘Scotland of East', where the wind whistles through a variety of evergreen pine trees standing tall all around. The numerous ...

PINE GROVE – A Christmas “grinch” has apparently made stealing a tree from a Pine Grove cemetery an annual holiday tradition. For the second year in a row, an arborvitae evergreen tree planted at the ...