During snowless winters like we are having this year, I relish the evergreen plants in my garden as they add a touch of green ...

These small conifer trees for birds provide food and refuge in all seasons. These varieties are perfect for small landscapes.

As you approach spring landscaping chores, you might be considering adding a dogwood tree to your yard. Types of dogwood trees vary from the 6- to 12-inch miniature dogwood “tree” known as bunchberry ...

While we might like the idea of an evergreen yard that remains vibrant and full of life all year long, many evergreen trees are best kept out of our gardens. Whether for their aggressive nature or ...

When considering shade trees for landscape use, such staple native species as maples, oaks, elms and hornbeams come to mind. Another serviceable choice is the American linden (Tilia americana).

The aptly named Dwarf 3 will make you think again, with this compact smart telescope reduced to the size of an old-fashioned camcorder. Does reducing a telescope to such a portable size involve ...

Taken from a tree in Norway, this stained tree sample shows a blue ring from 1902. (Credit: Pawel Matulewski and Liliana Siekacz) Human skin isn't the only thing that can change color after facing the ...

Overall, only 2.1% of the pine trees' rings and 1.3% of the juniper shrubs' rings were blue; the cells which hadn't lignified properly were mainly found at the end of growth rings, in latewood ...

Blue growth rings found in woody plant stems represent years when cells did not lignify properly because of summers too cold for growth When the going gets cold, even tough trees struggle with ...

6. CREATING PRIVACY: When creating privacy in the landscape, small evergreen trees can be used to screen an outdoor living area from the neighbors’ view. Evergreen trees are also very useful ...

These eruptions likely cast a volcanic winter over the northern hemisphere, impacting the trees at Mount Iškoras in Norway, where the study was conducted. "Blue rings look like unfinished growth ...