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This article, titled "EDITOR'S NOTE," discusses the author's inspiration for an article on conifers with flat or scale-like leaves. The author describes how they were inspired by the contrast between a dwarf Alberta spruce and a Jade Waves false cypress in their own garden. They then reached out to a knowledgeable plantsman for recommendations on conifers with flat leaves, which are featured in the article. The article also mentions that it includes advice from various other garden professionals on topics such as labyrinth building, hügelkultur, sedges, ecological gardening, and vegetable growing. The author believes that each professional's advice will spark ideas for readers' gardens. [Extracted from the article]

A long bloom time and compact growth habit combine to make this hardy shrub a winner for foundation plantings and mixed beds. FEATURES ALL-AMERICA SELECTIONS A network of anonymous gardening professionals from various regions of the United States and Canada evaluate new, not-yet-sold cultivars in about 80 test gardens each growing season, judging them against comparable selections that are already on the market. Having already recommended so many garden-worthy native grasses, for 2022 the GreatPlants selection committee had to look beyond the usual cold-hardy perennial grasses and choose a tender plant, ruby grass. Flowering on Easy on the Eyes is heavy enough to obscure its foli-28 age, but behind the bloom the leaves remain clean and glossy throughout the growing season. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers brief information on Made in America gifts and decorative accessories including the Honey Coco Mango beeswax candle from Generation Bee, the Rebel Soy Wax Candle from Golden Gems, and the Farmhouse White Spruce Soy Candle from Mangiacotti.

It's a tree that's shade intolerant; in a mature forest, there is little aspen regeneration. DNA shared A grove of trembling aspens is often a single organism - each tree in the grove is genetically identical, with all the trees interconnected with a massive, single root system. Columns Without a doubt, trees are one of the most important components of wildlife habitat in Ontario. [Extracted from the article]

Habit: This deciduous tree slowly grows from 15 to 25 feet tall and 10 to 15 feet wide, with a weeping branch habit. It's said that the weeping forms of this tree trace their heritage to a centuries-old tree at a monastery in Morioka, Japan. It is surprisingly adaptable to soil type, but this tree prefers rich, slightly acidic soil with good drainage and even moisture, which can be promoted with mulch. [Extracted from the article]

Live, container-grown Christmas trees provide consumers with a real tree option that can be planted into their landscapes after the holidays. Be sure to allow plenty of room for growth since almost all conifers used as living Christmas trees are fast-growing trees. Choose a tree species that will make a good landscape tree as an attractive Christmas tree. [Extracted from the article]

Choose a tree species that will make a good landscape tree as an attractive Christmas tree. Be sure to allow plenty of room for growth since almost all conifers used as living Christmas trees are fast-growing trees. Live, container-grown Christmas trees provide consumers with a real tree option that can be planted into their landscapes after the holidays. [Extracted from the article]

Live, container-grown Christmas trees provide consumers with a real tree option that can be planted into their landscapes after the holidays. Choose a tree species that will make a good landscape tree as an attractive Christmas tree. Be sure to allow plenty of room for growth since almost all conifers used as living Christmas trees are fast-growing trees. [Extracted from the article]

Live, container-grown Christmas trees provide consumers with a real tree option that can be planted into their landscapes after the holidays. Choose a tree species that will make a good landscape tree as an attractive Christmas tree. Be sure to allow plenty of room for growth since almost all conifers used as living Christmas trees are fast-growing trees. [Extracted from the article]

Be sure to allow plenty of room for growth since almost all conifers used as living Christmas trees are fast-growing trees. Live, container-grown Christmas trees provide consumers with a real tree option that can be planted into their landscapes after the holidays. Choose a tree species that will make a good landscape tree as an attractive Christmas tree. [Extracted from the article]

TYLER HOAR: Winter finches are members of the finch family that breed primarily in the boreal forest. So a lot of finches like Pine Siskins and White-winged Crossbills have gone into western North America for the winter because there's this huge food source. INCOMING AUDUBON: What's a winter finch?. [Extracted from the article]

This hemlock grove is perhaps 50 feet wide by 100 feet in length, bisected the long way by the Massachusetts Midstate Trail, a 92-milelong path that starts on the New Hampshire border and ends on the Rhode Island border. Collectively, every tree shares the same name: Tsuga canadensis, or Eastern hemlock, for those who only understand them to be just another commodity of lumber or pulp paper. I stand silently in this hemlock grove a few times each year. [Extracted from the article]

Front 1 Coastal Rainforest This fertile area stretches north up the Pacific coast to Alaska. Unlike in tropical rainforests, relatively few species of temperate tree thrive in such wet, low-sunlight conditions - among them, Douglas fir, western hemlock, Sitka spruce, yellow cedar and amabilis fir. Species include black spruce, tamarack, lodgepole pine, aspen, balsam poplar and white birch. [Extracted from the article]

This article presents information on the meaning of Arboretum. An arboretum is ordinarily a place where the serious-minded citizen can learn the difference between a white and a black spruce, or see in person a Russian olive, a tamarisk, or an Arizona cypress. That is, it is a collection of trees. Sometimes an arboretum also serves as an outdoor library of horticultural varieties, i.e., a place where one can compare all the apples, all the lilacs, all the roses. Some advanced institutions arrange their tree-collection as natural associations, rather than as taxonomic groups. Such exhibits are called ecological groupings and represent advanced thought in arboretum management.

Paul and Joanne Mechling of Snowy Oak Tree Farm, who were Ohio Conservation Farm Family award winners last year, have a new title this year - 2019 Ohio Tree Farm of the Year. Snowy Oak Tree Farm was established in 1974 when Paul and Joanne moved to Ashtabula County for Paul to establish a much-needed veterinary practice in that area, and Joanne to teach. Over the years, Paul has planted more than 140,000 trees, including 21 species of conifers and hardwoods, on mostly reverting agricultural fields. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the mast year phenomenon of trees that can happen up to five years apart. Topics include species of trees that are synchronously productive in a mast year including oak trees, nut genera and seed-bearing trees including sugar maples, white spruce and beech trees. Also discussed are hypotheses of scientists about mast years including trees withholding food during non-mast years, pollens carrying information to trees and environmental conditions leading to masting behavior.

The article discusses the study of white spruce seedlings with tree improvement programs for the development of plant families, including future plant growth, climate conditions and the atmospheric carbon dioxide.

The article offers information on some varieties of conifers. It includes the Nootka Cypress, native of the Pacific Northwest that grows up to 50 feet, with pendulous branchlets dangling from upright branches. Weeping white spruce is an evergreen for cooler climates that reaches a height of 30 feet with ramrod straight trunk with drooping branches. Algerian fir is an unusual conifer that bears blunted, blue green needles in dense foxtail branchlets.

Reports on the destruction of a white spruce forest in south-central Alaska as of March 2001. Description of the spruce bark beetle infestation; Discussion on the possible effect on migratory birds; Change in the habitat of the ruby-crowned kinglets at the Copper River Basin.

The article presents the winter-interest favorites of gardeners Judy and Steve Penticoff from Rockford, Illinois which include weeping white spruce for conifers, weeping katsura for deciduous trees, and feather reed grass for grasses.

The article highlights that redwood will be more susceptible to pests and disease due to drought stress. It notes unknown factors that impacts on growth, mortality and survival of the White spruce trees in Western North America's boreal forests. It also mentions Aspen trees and boreal forest which are essential for carbon dioxide gas reduction and discusses increased mortality rate due to climatic changes.

The article focuses on a research which investigated the interaction between atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations and genotypes of white spruce. It references a study by E. E. Mycroft and colleagues which appeared in "Basic and Applied Ecology." It outlines the increase in height and increase in biomass at elevated carbon dioxide. It discusses the impact of CO2 concentrations on plant height and basal stem diameter.

The article discusses the three major spruces in North America including white spruce, red spruce and black spruce. They are collectively called the eastern spruce which are not very large and that the lumber they produce has very small knots. It has been used for piano sounding boards and other musical instruments. Suggestions for its processing and characteristics in terms of density, drying and stability are also presented. INSET: Processing suggestions and characteristics.

The article reports on the favorite plants of "Country Gardens" regional editor Ann Whitman that are favored by resident songbirds in the U.S. Northeast. Gray Catbirds prefer elderberry bushes. Cedar Waxwings eat the purple berries of blueberry bushes. Seeds from the cones of white spruce are picked by chickadees and nuthatches.

The article focuses on new genetic evidence that white spruce trees endured the harsh climate of Alaska throughout the last ice age, 25,000-12,000 years ago. Lynn L. Anderson, a plant geneticist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, conducted research with colleagues which found seven genetic variations in white spruce in Alaska, more than would likely occur if the plant repopulated Alaska just 12,000 years ago.

Focuses on the use of live tree as Christmas tree. Preference for a weeping white spruce; Identification of ornamental plants that can be used as Christmas tree; Types of plants that can survive without sunlight.