Deciduous and coniferous trees vary in many more ways than only leaf types. Learn these differences and you'll know which trees to choose for your landscape.

At a corner house in San Anselmo, a different redwood grows on three corners of the lot. The redwoods are the coast redwood, ...

In North America, deciduous conifers include larch, tamarack, bald cypress and the prehistoric dawn redwood. Many times, uniformed homeowners will remove a perfectly good dawn redwood tree in ...

trees were certainly unusual. The trees appeared to be conifers, but we knew that they lost their needles in winter just like a deciduous tree loses its leaves. A deciduous evergreen is an oxymoron.

An exotic tree that many may not know about is the dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides), which was first discovered in 1945, in China. This deciduous redwood can live for more than a ...

Our own tree must have been one of these early examples for it was planted March 7, 1949 -- Arbor Day. The Dawn Redwood has a tapered trunk that is buttressed at its base.

This deciduous redwood can live for more than a millennium, growing to a height of a hundred feet. Exotic dawn redwood varieties including ‘Goldrush,’ with golden yellow foliage and two dwarfs – ...