'Tis the season to celebrate the evergreens in our lives as we prepare to give pride of place to the Christmas trees that represent everything bright and shiny about the holidays. Many ...

We buy live Christmas trees with the best of intentions, excited about the possibilities of decorating our living rooms for the holidays and our gardens for evermore. Sometimes, that's just the ...

Conifers—thanks to their striking silhouettes, noteworthy growth habits, remarkable evergreen textures and variety of hues—are “gotta-have-it” landscape additions for today’s gardeners. Thankfully ...

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I doubt we give much thought to evergreen trees until Christmas rolls around and it’s time to invite one into our living rooms. Nothing is more a part of the holiday than ...

) as a tree, a big one that easily tops 100 feet. This one, introduced for 2013 by , is a fraction the size, but with, as far as I'm concerned, twice the punch. Though only 2 to 4 feet tall, 'Feelin' ...

Years ago I bought a collection of dwarf conifers to add visual texture and year-around color to the landscape at my house. Included in the group was something that is seldom seen in Spokane, but is ...

Even the fussiest of gardeners counts on certain plants to just be there- to grow through thick and thin, to resist disease and insect attack and to require an absolute minimum of upkeep. To the vast ...

If the leaves on your apple tree develop brown spots and fall off early, and the apples are covered with corky-looking bumps, your tree is inflicted with a fungus disease known as apple scab. The ...

Pat Hayward deals with plants — and more precisely, plant questions — all day as executive director of Plant Select. And then she comes home to a garden in the foothills north of Loveland that is ...