It’s often easy to make assumptions about living things, but nature has a way of showing us that there are always exceptions ...

Western larches are stately trees, soaring 90 to nearly 200 feet tall, with branches that spill out in a neat cascade from a narrow crown. While the majority of conifers are evergreen — retaining ...

As November comes to a close, we find ourselves just three weeks away from the official arrival of winter. Many of us have seen our first snowflakes already, and last week, we had a wintry mix that ...

After most of my maples have shed their leaves at my acreage, the eastern Larch are turning a lovely golden yellow. Although it is a conifer (cone bearing), with needles, it is not considered an ...

Growing up in the Larchmont area of Norfolk, I always heard that the neighborhood was named that because of the abundance of larch trees here. I have come to find out that the trees I thought were ...