Pine trees can serve a variety of purposes in a home landscape, from acting as windbreaks to providing visual interest with their evergreen foliage. Though generally low-maintenance, pine trees ...

Pine trees, like oaks and magnolias ... it's also an unforgiving landscape. Plants and trees must be hardy enough to survive droughts, hurricanes, cold snaps and blistering humid summers.

This week, we meet the eastern white pine or Pinus strobus, which historically was one of the tallest trees in the eastern United States. This conifer is the only five-needled pine native to Indiana, ...

A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

Jeffrey pine trees are tolerant of both cold and drought ... models of accurate elevations to better understand the changing landscape of the High Sierra. More information: Hugh D.