There is an earthy touch that pine cones lend to the Christmas season, giving holiday décor an unpretentious, warm character. Pine cones can be purchased but they are simple to collect. Find a pine in ...

When it's time to take your Christmas tree down, consider putting it outside in your yard for the rest of winter and turning it into a combination bird shelter and bird feeder. Just melt suet, stir in ...

As you admire your holiday decorations, pause to examine a pine cone (or a spruce cone or a fir cone). What is this dry, brown thing in your hand, with its airy rows of scales? Think of it as ...

Pine cones, in a way, made Minnesota what it is today. In the state's early colonial history, our towering white pines became the backbone of the lumber industry that Minnesota's major cities were ...

Look up, look down, and look all around because it appears to be another banner year for cones. Pine cones, spruce cones, fir cones when we talk “pine” cones it includes them all and today that’s just ...

WE are indebted to the ill-fated Scottish plant-hunter David Douglas and the Irish botanist Thomas Coulter for the discovery and introduction of many fine conifers from the western USA. Neither of ...