Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Tromping through our woods in December in search of a Christmas tree, I ...

Ferns and virginia bluebells grow around flowering eastern redbud - Stevedeming/Getty Images Hardy species like the native ...

leaving oval scars on the tree trunks that are like a beautiful snakeskin pattern, which is why they are known to the Japanese as “snake trees.” This is the tree fern species that foreign visitors to ...

Packing pine needles into the crown will protect against temperatures down to minus 4C, but below that you’ll need to secure several layers of horticultural fleece over the crown and fronds ...

"This would have looked like a fairly open forest with small to moderate sized coniferous-looking trees with individual and clumped tree-fern like plants of possibly smaller size growing between them.