When I was a kid, there was a year my parents bought a spruce for our yard. But before we planted it, the three-foot tree had another role to play: our family's Christmas tree. My mom pulled the ...

Standard potted bay tree next to a lanturn candle, window sill, and bush. - Floki/Shutterstock Trained single-stem bay trees (Laurus nobilis) are a stylish choice that thrives in hardiness zones 7 ...

The holiday season is my favorite time of year. In New York, the snow is still in its novel phase, all fluffy and soft. My Brooklyn neighborhood decks out the main thoroughfare in charming string ...

The joy of a cut Christmas tree is fleeting. All the festive fun is front-loaded: picking out the perfect specimen, bedazzling its boughs with lights and meaningful ornaments, and gathering around it ...

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