Roger Snipes of the Inland Empire Bonsai Society prunes or defoliates leaves off a hedge maple he is training. (Pat Munts/For The Spokesman-Review) Buy this photo For Roger Snipes, working with his ...

Without regular trims, growing Christmas trees get hairy and lose their ideal cone shape. From the time they are 4 years old, wee fir trees are manually pruned one by one — annually in July or August.

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 ...

Conifers—thanks to their striking silhouettes, noteworthy growth habits, remarkable evergreen textures and variety of hues—are “gotta-have-it” landscape additions for today’s gardeners. Thankfully ...

Craning my neck, I nearly fell over backward -- and still I couldn't see the crown. It was a dark, damp December morning and I was standing with muddy shoes in the middle of Macleay Park. All for a ...