Evergreen trees vary but they have one thing in common. As they grow and create shade, their inner and lower foliage withers and dies from lack of sun. White Pines don’t sprout new needles on ...

With a Christmas tree grower’s eye honed over decades, Paul Alan Shealer examined a nearly eight-foot-tall Douglas fir Monday ...

On any kind of evergreen, the part of a branch closest to the trunk is oldest, and that’s where old needles are discarded. “In the interior of the tree, there’s not much sunlight,” Yiesla ...

Evergreen trees are great producers of phytoncide, ... Despite the fact most Christmas trees are cut at the trunk when they enter our homes, people can still benefit from their trees, ...

Their sturdy trunks and branches might bend on windy days, but they will likely survive the storm when foliage around them breaks. In the Bible, evergreen trees often represent God’s eternal ...

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Q: I have a spruce tree that used to be perfectly shaped. The very top of the tree trunk has been broken off. I think a hawk that stays in our area tried to perch on it and broke it. I don’t ...

The tree was also introduced in Hawaii but started escaping in the wild. Here in our drier climate it is better behaved. The shamel ash grows fast to eventually reach 70 or 80 feet.