Bright green tips emerging now on Juneau’s spruce trees kept alive sailors searching for a safer route between Europe and the Orient. Spruce tip beer was the secret to survival. It played a key role ...

Bundles of spruce tips — that winter perennial — are now plentiful at garden centers and supermarkets. Many of us plunge the evergreen branches into planters, then stick in a few red dogwood twigs, ...

Despite the prolonged miserable weather during the so-called “spring”, the deciduous trees leafed out nicely, birds sing, and woodland flowers begin to bloom. On my home pond I’ve seen several broods ...