It’s difficult to see the forest for the trees, especially when most of those trees are conifers. After all, conifers all tend to look the same, especially from a distance. People don’t come from all ...

Lush, sprawling forests, trails littered with cones and the clean, waxy smell of evergreens in the crisp morning air: Colorado. This state is known for its towering lodgepole pines, pale blue spruces ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Look up, look down, and look all around because it appears to be another banner year for cones. Pine cones, spruce cones, fir cones when we talk “pine” cones ...

In Georgia’s northern mountains, workers scale daunting heights in search of the fir cones seeds that produce Europe’s favourite Christmas tree. But while foreign importers line their pockets, the ...

This winter’s freezes and thaws affected plenty of plants, but one reader experienced some surprising results. Just after the last freeze, she asked about a curious occurrence she noticed concerning ...

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 ...

The first 37 m crawler lift sold in Denmark has solved a unique working at height challenge for forestry workers. This autumn, two foresters were tasked with harvesting 20000 litres of seed cones in ...

Young fir trees are among the most elegant of woody plants, like Christmas trees that have been made over by a dynamic young designer. They have a dead-straight, upright trunk and branches that stick ...