Juniper shrubs are getting a second look as homeowners search for carefree greenery with year-round appeal. These plants have long been a landscape staple, especially as an evergreen foundation ...

A simple blue stain could force trees into giving up their memories of cold summers and volcanic winters, a recent study ...

Juniper plants are members of the cypress family, or Cupressaceae, commonly referred to as conifers. While the word conifer might conjure up images of large, conical evergreens that soar upwards ...

Overall, only 2.1% of the pine trees' rings and 1.3% of the juniper shrubs' rings were blue; the cells which hadn't lignified properly were mainly found at the end of growth rings, in latewood ...

Preserving pinyon and juniper forests is urgent for the plant, animal, and human communities that depend on them, including ...

Buchwal's team analyzed samples from 25 Scots pine trees and 54 juniper shrubs, staining and photographing their growth rings under a microscope. The study revealed that blue rings were more ...

These plants are more drought and heat tolerant than native UK species. If you can, its best to plant these species alongside each other so your garden will thrive in current and future climates.

Selecting Mount Iškoras in Norway for a search for blue rings, a team of researchers took samples from 25 pine trees and 54 juniper shrubs, representing the species Pinus sylvestris and Juniperus ...

Since trees and shrubs can live for hundreds of years, identifying these blue rings allows us to spot cold summers in the past. By looking at pine trees and juniper shrubs from northern Norway ...