Unlike pine bark, pine straw is made up of needles, which are actually the trees' leaves. When used as a mulch, they break down in a similar way to other types of leaves and help enrich the soil in a ...

If you’ve ever raked up a pile of fallen pine needles, you’ve probably wondered: “Can I just… use these?” Spoiler alert: you ...

If your pine tree is suddenly infested with a black-headed, Medusa-like worm, fear not — chances are the tree is simply hosting a colony of European Pine Sawfly larvae. Sawfly larvae hatch in March or ...

My first memory of pine trees are the black-and-white trees depicted in the guó huà, a traditional Chinese painting, that hung on my grandmother’s wall. The calligraphy below the painting read, “xue ...

As it’s getting colder and the leaves are starting to fall, it won’t be long before we start getting calls about brown needles on evergreens such as pines. We call them “evergreens” because they ...