The stroll was peaceful and the birds were singing.

Discover fun facts about conifers and which birds love the trees. Learn the difference between conifers and pines and much ...

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The types do wander, always in search of a bumper crop of conifer cones. From late summer in 2023 into the summer of this year, red crossbills appeared in southern Maine in large numbers.

Conifers produce seeds in their cones, many have spindly foliage and most are evergreen. There are more than 600 species available, so they can add a lot of interest to a garden, ...

Cones come in many shapes and sizes, and not every cone resembles the typical pine cone. Most conifers are evergreen trees, but a few are deciduous. Pines have needles that are bundled together at ...

Pine cone fragments are neatly arranged in a circle around the squirrel’s perch. Synchronized conifer masting cycles — or the yearly variation in the number of cones produced — vary by species.

My yard is full of eastern white pine trees, and every three years or so, it is full of pine cones. This is one of those years. Pine cones have fallen all over the yard, the sidewalk, the driveway.

Planting arborvitae shrubs close to the home is a bad call because gardeners often fail to account for their widening expanse. For instance, the ubiquitous Emerald Green variety grows 4 feet wide at ...