6 Tips for Pruning Evergreens
December 18, 2014Just before the holidays is a perfect time to trim your evergreen trees and shrubs, both to encourage spring growth and to provide fodder to deck your halls.
3 Ways to Protect Evergreens This Winter
December 4, 2014Prevent harsh winter winds and cold temperatures from taking a toll on your rhododendrons, holly and fir trees with these simple tips.
Evergreens of Hope
January 3, 2014Good nature could winter foresee when she made the evergreen tree. —Pepper Blair
6 Winter Ground Covers You Never Thought to Grow
October 31, 2013While evergreens of all sorts add texture and color to the winter garden, I also think that a winter garden is incomplete without a quilt-like swathe of evergreen groundcovers.
O Christmas Tree
December 17, 2012Uzzi and I admire Mom and Dad’s Christmas tree when we sneak into the house at night to use the computer. After Christmas, we get to eat it! Evergreen trees are a big part of humans’ Christmas traditions.
Deck the Stalls: Holly
December 10, 2012This is the time of year that farm folk like to decorate their homes and barns with festive evergreens.
Nature’s Swag
December 8, 2010A few weeks ago, a fairly impressive wind storm littered Douglas fir branches around our farm, plus snapped off the dead top of the big, old fir gracing our horses’ pasture. It seemed a shame to let all of those branches go to waste …
