After most of my maples have shed their leaves at my acreage, the eastern Larch are turning a lovely golden yellow. Although it is a conifer (cone bearing), with needles, it is not considered an ...

One thinks of conifers and immediately envisions evergreen. Conifers are cone-bearing trees that frequently do keep their leaves year round. Common examples are pines, firs, spruce, and cedars.

There is a group of evergreens that contain some oddball trees, not fitting in the typical mold of conifers. It must have been somewhat difficult for the early botanists to name and classify some of ...

As November comes to a close, we find ourselves just three weeks away from the official arrival of winter. Many of us have seen our first snowflakes already, and last week, we had a wintry mix that ...

Western larches are stately trees, soaring 90 to nearly 200 feet tall, with branches that spill out in a neat cascade from a narrow crown. While the majority of conifers are evergreen — retaining ...

Larch tree cones grow near the top of very tall trees, which makes them tough to collect for anything other than squirrels. The Flathead National Forest needs a lot of larch cones for its reseeding ...

LEAVENWORTH — You can spot the gold of the larch trees high on the eastern and northern Cascades. But to really see them, to feel their softness and breathe in their scent, you must hike. Up. And up ...

As our thoughts turn to spring planting, let’s look at underplanted trees and shrubs over the next few weeks. In this age of the global economy, being a native plant may not be all it’s cracked up to ...