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 ...

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 ...

Female (left) and male spruce cones at the Arnold Arboretum. It's a more common sight to see separate male and female cones like this. (Courtesy William "Ned" Friedman) Every spring the conifer trees ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland is The Forest City. Our forests are mostly filled with trees like oaks, maples, beeches, and hickories that flower in the spring, provide shade in the summer, and dazzle ...

“Prune a conifer?” you ask. Well, as Dylan Thomas said, we need “to begin at the beginning.” Conifers are cone-bearing trees that produce tiny pollen cones in spring followed later by more substantial ...

In elementary school, most of us learned the basic differences between deciduous and coniferous trees. Deciduous trees have leaves that change color and drop in the fall, and coniferous trees have ...