These small conifer trees for birds provide food and refuge in all seasons. These varieties are perfect for small landscapes.

Towering blue spruce trees shade the campsites and provide some privacy in the already secluded forest. Every site has creek access, making it perfect for those looking for a summertime escape. Be ...

Carrie Blair will discuss ways to help you identify trees by their various characteristics, habitats, branch patterns, leaves, flowers, seeds, thorns, buds, and leaf scars. She’ll also teach some of ...

Selecting Mount Iškoras in Norway for a search for blue rings, a team of researchers took samples from 25 pine trees and 54 juniper shrubs, representing the species Pinus sylvestris and Juniperus ...

These eruptions likely cast a volcanic winter over the northern hemisphere, impacting the trees at Mount Iškoras in Norway, where the study was conducted. "Blue rings look like unfinished growth ...

A blue ring formed in 1902 in a tree in northern Norway. Image by Pawel Matulewski and Liliana Siekacz. Scientists studying pine trees and juniper shrubs in northern Scandinavia are revealing the ...

Overall, only 2.1% of the pine trees' rings and 1.3% of the juniper shrubs' rings were blue; the cells which hadn't lignified properly were mainly found at the end of growth rings, in latewood ...

Blue growth rings found in woody plant stems represent years when cells did not lignify properly because of summers too cold for growth When the going gets cold, even tough trees struggle with ...

Scientists studying pine trees and juniper shrubs in northern Scandinavia are revealing the weather of the past by looking at tree rings — which can tell us far more than just the trees’ age. ‘Blue’ ...

In Norway, scientists have found blue rings in trees that hint at how volcanic eruptions disrupted growth throughout history. Credits: Credits: Havardtl, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Scientists ...

Planting fruit trees can bring a bountiful harvest to your yard. You can pick your own apples, peaches, pears, oranges, figs, and more. Not only can you enjoy delicious fruit picked at the peak of ...

Penticton residents have been capturing a great blue heron or two near Riverside ... "I was walking along the channel, looking up at the trees in hopes of finding an eagle, but saw this large ...