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 ...

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.

As you add plants to your garden this fall, consider the conifer. Their evergreen nature (there are only a couple of deciduous conifers) make them perfect "bones." In winter, when other plants have ...

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 ...

Plants that are green all year are a key element in landscape design. Walk out of your house now, in the dead of winter, and what stands out in the garden? Trees and shrubs that are green all year ...

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 ...

Walking Loveland’s tree streets has imposed a sharper focus concerning cultural distinctions with one distinction so prominent it serves as the model for other distinctions. Nothing more clearly ...