If it were not for its usefulness as a glittering seasonal accessory once a year, the conifer would be hard put to make many Christmas wish lists. “If you asked the average person for their earliest ...

As the last leaf of autumn floats to the ground, the burden of carrying the garden through the winter falls to evergreens. This may be an overstatement. The silhouette of bare trees and the tracery of ...

We tend to associate conifers with the Christmas trees we carefully select for their shape, scent and beauty and take home to decorate this time of year. The silver tip fir is one of the most popular ...

Once established, conifers provide lush green screening for very little effort. Super easy to look after, they need only ...

Conifers are wonderful plants — attractive, hardy, functional. They’re terrific additions to any garden or landscape. Really. You may look around your neighborhood and laugh, seeing that 60-foot pine ...

Redwoods, sequoias and bristlecones. California has the tallest, the biggest and the oldest conifers in the world. To excess, add extravagance. We also have the greatest variety. The whispering ...

When I bought my home in Burlington nine years ago, a huge selling point was the gardens. Both front and back yards were terraced with stonework, and the previous owners had planted loads of ...

ROD PARKE USED to grow 253 kinds of hybrid tea roses. When he tired of all the spraying, he moved on to filling his North Seattle garden with dahlias, and then rhododendrons. Turns out the rhodies ...

A charming dwarf conifer with heaps of character, this forms a dense, upright cone of close-packed stiff, short, deep green needles. In late spring, the new growth at the tips of the shoots is bright, ...

It takes a certain kind of person to lovingly protect an heirloom rose through a harsh winter, or amend the soil for a temperamental rhododendron, all for the reward of few sweet weeks of seeing the ...

Gartner research talks about 'Conifers’ ability to dynamically learn client-specific institutional knowledge resolves the ...