WHAT: Contorted filbert, also known as Harry Lauder’s walking stick or corylus avellana contorta, is a deciduous tree with spiraled, mangled branches that provide striking winter interest in Northwest ...

In elementary school, most of us learned the basic differences between deciduous and coniferous trees. Deciduous trees have leaves that change color and drop in the fall, and coniferous trees have ...

What: Each delicate needle and branch on Larix kaempferi “Diana” twists and turns like a corkscrew. The twirling blue-green needles are irresistibly soft and very touchable. In the fall, they turn a ...

Last month, this column focused on the desirable characteristics of Christmas trees, one of which is good needle retention.

Every October it seems people lose their ever-loving minds over Halloween. My Facebook feed is overwhelmed with spooky posts from friends who can’t wait to scare me to death. But what they don’t know ...

The dark foliage of conifer trees dominates much of our landscape. It gets to be a bit overwhelming at times, so I’m always glad when spring leaf-out brings fresh, bright greens of the deciduous tree ...

Plants that drop all their leaves at one time and enter a leafless, dormant state are called deciduous. In climates that ...