If we were to play the word association game and I said, “conifer,” you might immediately respond with “Christmas tree.” I must admit that the Rockefeller Center tree at this time of year is ...

Conifers are cone-bearing plants and include plants such as pines, cypress, junipers and yews. They are usually recognized by their needle-like foliage and are considered evergreens. Although most ...

Evergreens can provide so many benefits to the landscape, but the most notable is that they are always green. When deciduous trees shed their leaves, they lose them all. As a result, what is left is ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – There are many advantages to conifer trees. First, they are green year around. That means when used as a landscape screen, whatever they are blocking from your view, they ...

Planting conifers in mixed containers has been at the top of my fall and winter project list. My wife, Jan, doesn’t know this has really been a secret almost double agent-like operation to get more ...

The dark foliage of conifer trees dominates much of our landscape. It gets to be a bit overwhelming at times, so I’m always glad when spring leaf-out brings fresh, bright greens of the deciduous tree ...

We buy live Christmas trees with the best of intentions, excited about the possibilities of decorating our living rooms for the holidays and our gardens for evermore. Sometimes, that's just the ...

A landscape needs “bones” — plants that anchor the overall look throughout the year, not just during the growing season in spring and summer. Evergreens typically form the “bones” of a good landscape ...

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 ...

As we head into the winter season, we can see nature’s landscape change. The temperatures drop, animals begin to migrate or hibernate, the mountains get covered in snow and trees begin to lose their ...