Indigenous people have long used fire to care for the land, and tree rings suggest those fires helped mitigate drought and ...

Roger Snipes of the Inland Empire Bonsai Society prunes or defoliates leaves off a hedge maple he is training. (Pat Munts/For The Spokesman-Review) Buy this photo For Roger Snipes, working with his ...

The Loblolly Pine ( Pinus taeda) is considered the fastest-growing pine species, characterized by its unique appearance, with dense foliage at the top and bare trunks. This tall, straight evergreen ...

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 ...

Blue spruce (Picea pungens f. glauca), also called Colorado blue spruce, is a beautiful tree with blue-gray needles. Being colorful and relatively drought tolerant, it’s a favorite of many homeowners ...

A RAGING tree surgeon dumped a quarter of a TON of hedge trimmings on a customer’s lawn in a row over a £40 payment. Jamie Young, 37, claims customer Chrissie refused to pay the fee because her hedge ...

Q: We have a 20-foot dawn redwood tree whose lower limbs are so much longer than the top limbs. It’s very misshapen. Can it be trimmed so the top growth will appear to be more in sync with the lower ...

Of all the fascinating trees that grow in the Pacific Northwest -- among them the colossal Douglas fir, the broad-limbed bigleaf maple and the enchanting western red cedar -- none is so curious as the ...

For years we’ve also decorated a living tree, a particularly beautiful spruce growing in our garden, in addition to a more conveniently sized one indoors. It happens to be an extremely rare and ...

The Scots Pine grows widely throughout Europe and Asia. Its distribution range extends eastwards from western Europe to the eastern extremity of Russia, northwards to Scandinavia and southwards to the ...