If you notice something emerging from your garden soil that resembles an exotic spider or the green tentacles of a misplaced sea creature, do not be alarmed. You are merely witnessing the germination ...

These native conifers can grow even in poor, rocky soil. The Spruce / Evgeniya Vlasova Jack pine is a tree that cannot be tamed—this small to medium-sized evergreen grows its own way and takes over ...

* What it is: A lot of needled evergreens tend to grow fast and soon overpower the allotted space while “baring out” at the bottom. Swiss stone pine is one of the slower-growing evergreens, staying in ...

If you have a pine shrub or tree in your yard, spring is the time to control its growth. Keeping a pine in check is not a simple matter of pruning branches. “Pines aren’t like other evergreens,” said ...

Evergreen trees and shrubs often alarm homeowners by losing needles in autumn. There’s usually no need for concern. “It’s part of the regular life cycle of these plants for some needles to turn yellow ...

If you bought a live pine tree for Christmas, you may be thinking about planting it in your yard. Here in Tucson we are in Sunset Zone 12. Most pine trees that do well in our desert are imports from ...

The Florida State Parks Foundation and partners plant nearly 1,000 longleaf pines at Wakulla Springs State Park.

Don Becker/U.S. Geological Survey When a bark beetle outbreak started killing off decades-old pine trees in a research forest in western Montana, Forest Service researcher Sharon Hood made the best of ...

Gnarled, dead bristlecone pine trees, which can live more than 5,000 years, stand where young limber pine grow around them. Limber pine is beginning to colonize areas of the Great Basin once dominated ...