There are ideas for easy holiday craft projects, Christmas crafts for kids, winter decorating ideas, and plenty more projects that you can make in no time. The best part of all, though, pine cone ...

As you admire your holiday decorations, pause to examine a pine cone (or a spruce cone or a fir cone). What is this dry, brown thing in your hand, with its airy rows of scales? Think of it as ...

Evergreen trees that produce cones are called conifers. There are more than 600 species of conifers — which include pines, firs and spruce — each with its own type and size of cones.

Reviewing the wild world of evergreens can help gardeners and homeowners care for and maintain their landscapes.

Fall is the perfect time to pick pine cones, especially after a good wind knocks them to the ground. However, beware if you visit the mountains along the California coast on a windy day: The ...

Pine cones, spruce cones, fir cones when we talk “pine” cones it includes them all and today that’s just what we are gabbing about … conifer aka “pine” cones. Here’s a little review ...

Q: We had 17 spruce transplanted a few years ago into our new lot. They are about 10 feet tall. What do all the pine cones mean? - Pamela Sweeney, Abercrombie, N.D.

There's also interest in jack pine and red pine cones. The seeds are going for $30 to $80 a bushel. There are 21 seed drop-off sites across the state, with five just north of the Twin Cities metro ...

To understand why pine cones are so cool, you have to go back to the first land plants. Well over 400 million years ago, plants made the leap from an aquatic existence to the land.

Nov. 20, 2022. MOAB, Utah — Blake Votilla stared up at the 120-foot spruce tree. He strapped braces with four-inch spurs to his shins and clipped two large red plastic sacks on his climbing harness.

The DNR is paying the public $85/bushel for black spruce pine cones, saying its cupboard is bare after a few poor years for the cones. In this picture, Kayla DeChaine, nursery specialist, guides ...