Because of their popularity as windbreaks and visual screens, we often see many conifers in the home landscape. Conifers are cone-bearing plants and do not flower. A few are deciduous and drop their ...

When I bought my home in Burlington nine years ago, a huge selling point was the gardens. Both front and back yards were terraced with stonework, and the previous owners had planted loads of ...

Brown and gray, you can go away now. With pewter skies, taupe trees and blah-colored mud getting old fast, gardeners are craving green. The desperately needed hue, fortunately, shines year-round on ...

Have you ever visited a nursery or toured a botanical garden with a collection of unusual conifers and thought to yourself, “I’d love that shrub or tree, but I have no idea how to use it in my ...

Small plants are adorable. They’re like every mother’s secret dream – a child who never grows up into a gangly and unruly teenager. Little boxwoods, dwarf conifers and miniature shrubs have obvious ...

Coloradans are lucky. In the dead of winter, when the landscape looks brown and dead or is covered by snow, we have the many hues of green conifers to remind us that spring will come again. In ...

In this video I demonstrate how to get large balled and burlap evergreen conifer trees planted with success. These large, ...

Bringing cuttings into your home isn’t just for the summer flower garden. With some planning, you can easily plant an interesting landscape that doubles as a source of cut greens and berries for your ...

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 ...

The traditional emphasis on dense, fast-growing, conifer-dominated forests in the Pacific Northwest raises questions about the health of dozens of animal species that depend on shrubs, herbs and broad ...