Many forms of coniferous pines are good in gardens too. Large ones, such as our native Scots pine, Pinus sylvestris, with ...

Simply combine ten drops of spruce oil with water and white vinegar to create an effective and pleasant-smelling cleaner. It ...

The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

One winter, around the time I was tinkering again with recipes for fragrant fir needles, I received a gift of beautifully ...

Mastodon bones are rare discoveries, but Orange County, N.Y., has proved to be a national hotbed for these extraordinary ...

A Belgian city has sparked confusion after advising its residents to eat Christmas trees, despite being potentially poisonous ...

Most of us by now have taken down the Christmas tree and put it away until next year or, in the case of real trees, have been ...

The Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain responded with a warning to residents that Christmas trees "are not meant ...

Yes, the Belgian government was recently forced to issue an odd PSA warning its citizens not to eat their old Christmas trees ...

Belgium's food safety agency issued a warning to residents to not turn their Christmas trees into food after a city's recycling recommendations included using the needles in recipes.

A day after Belgium warned against eating Christmas trees, Swedish officials said that the needles can be safely used to make ...

In Carinthia, the disposal of Christmas trees is free of charge. Garbage trucks collect the trees from the collection points.