Winter poses challenges for every living thing, two of the most crucial challenges being to obtain enough water and nutrients ...

These small conifer trees for birds provide food and refuge in all seasons. These varieties are perfect for small landscapes.

Tromping through our woods in December in search of a Christmas tree, I often notice an evergreen fern, one of the few green ...

If you're planning ahead you can grow enough plants for a whole new hedge. All but the very slowest growing varieties of conifers will root from cuttings. If you have a Leyland cypress or another ...

In the distant past, they outpaced plants such as conifers and ferns, which predate them, but how they did this has has been a mystery. New research suggests it is down to genome size - and small ...

I HAVE BEEN pruning evergreens now for the last two weeks at a fever pitch! That is because late November and all of December ...