Yahoo: DIY Christmas Tree Stand Ideas to Dress up Your Family's Evergreen
Though your Christmas tree may be one of your most cherished Christmas traditions, tree stands can sometimes get last billing when it comes to your holiday decor. But we've got some ideas to pretty ...
MSN: These DIY Christmas tree stand ideas will create such a festive setup
These DIY Christmas tree stand ideas will create such a festive setup
Orange County Register: For a sturdy tree, you had better take a firm stand
While many of us soon will spend a fair amount of time driving around looking for the perfect Christmas tree, few will spend as much time trying to find the right stand to set it in. The stand is a ...
Interior Alaskan forests have only six native tree species: white spruce, black spruce, quaking aspen, balsam poplar, larch (tamarack) and paper birch. Northern Canadian forests have all of those, plus jack pine, balsam fir and lodgepole pine. Since northern Canada and interior Alaska share the same grueling climate and extremes of daylength, why are the Canadian tree species absent from ...
I eventually found a tree with a spiral lightning mark and it followed the spiral grain exactly. One tree, of course, proves nothing. "But why should the tree spiral? More speculation here: Foliage tends to be thicker on the south side of the tree because of better sunlight.
A tree's age can be easily determined by counting its growth rings, as any Boy or Girl Scout knows. Annually, the tree adds new layers of wood which thicken during the growing season and thin during the winter. These annual growth rings are easily discernible (and countable) in cross-sections of the tree's trunk. In good growing years, when sunlight and rainfall are plentiful, the growth rings ...