It's tall, with dark-green prickly needles and peeling bark that reveals a satiny, copper-colored trunk. A perfect companion is the monkey puzzle tree, Araucaria araucaria, an intriguing conifer ...

Conifers belong to this second group ... Needles of Fraser and Canaan firs also smell good and are dark green with white undersides. Among pines, Scots pine needles are not as soft as fir needles ...

And what’s a great way to offer all three? Plant small conifer trees for birds! Seed-filled or berrylike cones offer food for ...

Unlike other parids (except for the mountain chickadee), it forages high in the canopies of tall conifers ... The cap is dark brown, shading to black at its lower edge from the bill through ...

Conifers bring structure and year-round interest to a garden. Cuttings can be taken from late summer to the end of autumn, but it's a slow process and can take almost a year for shoots to make ...

SEATTLE — Gardening expert Ciscoe Morris said pruning dwarf conifers can be tricky in the Evergreen State because they never stop growing here. He demonstrated on his Hinoki cypress spiralis.