In Connecticut, some of the most significant conifers are native and some are introduced.

Growing right next door to the Napa County Master Gardeners' office is a bright, shiny-leaved, small evergreen tree. It is always clean and fresh, with never a brown leaf or any aphids or scale on it.

When dry weather hits, resurrection fern shrivels up to reduce its surface area and goes dormant. Special proteins called dehydrins protect its cells from damage, so cell walls can shrink and stretch ...

Four and a half years after Coronado resident Paul Richardson asked the city if he could remove the five fern pine trees in front of his house — the droppings from which tangled up his wheelchair — ...