A huge set of overgrown conifer trees at a GP surgery car park are to be cut down after neighbours complained. The enormous leylandii, looming over a row of houses in Skelton, led to a formal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ’Tis the season for conifers—whether they are being decorated for a little Christmas cheer or merely serving as a vibrant, verdant ...

Many homeowners plant beautiful and fast-growing conifers to add privacy to their yards. Assuming they're evergreen, they believe the privacy screen would hold its green hue year-round. So, when they ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – There are many advantages to conifer trees. First, they are green year around. That means when used as a landscape screen, whatever they are blocking from your view, they ...

After a short stint in living rooms, most Christmas trees are destined for the landfill. But they can have a new life by ...

Spring has sprung and gardeners are digging in. Got questions as you carry on? Get answers from Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU ...

Annals of Botany, Vol. 110, No. 1, Highlight on Traits with Ecological Functions (July 2012), pp. 177-188 (12 pages) • Background and Aims The contemporary relegation of conifers mainly to cold or ...

The trees surrounding Wheatland tower overhead, yet in one corner, the plants can be crushed by the tiniest feet. Here, in the dwarf conifer garden, a circle of twigs surrounds a 5-inch tall ...

Eurasian spruce bark beetles (Ips typographus) burrow into the bark of Norway spruce (Picea abies) trees where they mate and lay their eggs. Major outbreaks in Europe have decimated millions of ...