Eastern hemlock is associated in the Northern ... and Abies amabilis Zones and is less important in the Tsuga mertensiana and Mixed-Conifer Zones. Black spruce (Picea mariana) is usually ...

Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), also called Canada hemlock or hemlock spruce, is a slow-growing long-lived tree which unlike many conifers grows well in shade. Hemlock may take 250 to 300 ...

Conifers also block sound rather effectively ... I've introduced you to Eastern Red Cedar before, it is one of the more bird-friendly trees you can plant in your yard. They provide both food ...

This conifer can be identified by its flat, scaly foliage in deep green. Eastern red cedar, often referred to as juniper, differs from white-cedar. With foliage that is fuller, sharper and ...

Of course, there are plenty of mosses and lichens around…and also evergreen plants, like the Eastern red-cedar or Juniperus virginiana. Here is an evergreen conifer that is very widespread in ...

And what’s a great way to offer all three? Plant small conifer trees for birds! Seed-filled or berrylike cones offer food for ...

In this edition of ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee takes us through the different characteristics of coniferous trees found here in Indiana ... The featured species include ...

These conifers played a key role in ecosystems ... were particularly important components of Cretaceous ecosystems of eastern Asia. "What's interesting about these two new genera, specifically ...

But not all conifers do. The arboretum also is home to the Juniperus virginiana, a juniper commonly — and confusingly — known as the Eastern red cedar. Birds love its berrylike fruit.