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 ...

Our gray days and white snow seem to dominate our winter, but with observation, you will notice that some of our plants ...

The colorful leaf scene of autumn every year stretches from the first of September until the first of November. During these two months we witness a slow, almost reluctant, surrender of the green ...

Trees with cones have needles and stay green all winter, right? Well, mostly. But there are a few remarkable trees that reproduce with cones but lose their leaves every fall, like a maple or an elm.

Depending on where we live, we are either coniferous or deciduous, except in reverse As winter yields to warm spring, which will become the furnace of summer, I look at the trees that front ...

Not all conifers are evergreens, and deciduous conifers include some of the most beautiful trees. A beautiful, deciduous conifer? Most people plant conifers because they keep their leaves year-round.

Western larches are stately trees, soaring 90 to nearly 200 feet tall, with branches that spill out in a neat cascade from a narrow crown. While the majority of conifers are evergreen — retaining ...

Submitted photo European larch “Contorta” is an interesting tree in winter. Dead cones may remain on the tree for up to 10 years. It’s often easy to make assumptions about living things, but nature ...