As much as I hate to admit it, it’s time to jettison the summer color and start thinking about what will look good in the garden all winter long. As the perennials melt away, annuals die and the ...

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 ...

Seeing Christmas trees on sale reminds me how beautiful needle-bearing conifers can be. Firs, pines and spruces look their absolute best in midwinter. Many create handsome outlines, bringing structure ...

As much as I hate to admit that summer colors are fading, it is time to start thinking about what will look good in the garden all winter. As the perennials melt down, the annuals die, and the ...

In April I discovered the nest of an American Crow high in a mature loblolly pine tree in our backyard. The nest is an accumulation of sticks attached firmly to two large limbs close to the top of the ...

In this video I demonstrate how to get large balled and burlap evergreen conifer trees planted with success. These large, ...

Generally speaking, conifers are trees and shrubs with needles that set seeds in cones. Yews, junipers and ginkgos produce cones, too, but they’re fleshy and appear berry-like. Ginkgos are ...

At 7,450 feet in height, Reyes Peak is the highest point between Santa Barbara County’s Big Pine Mountain (6,750 feet) and lofty 9,000-foot Mount Iwihinmu (Pinos). Reyes Peak on the Pine Mountain ...

Strolling on snowshoes around the Lower Loop at Eaglecrest one gray, damp day, we found, as expected, that conditions for reading animal tracks were bad on the rain-packed snow. So we counted trees ...

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 ...