conifers

What are those tiny brown cones that are covering my driveway?

I’ve been sweeping zillions of tiny, brown, cone-like structures off of my driveway. They are male pollen cones from Douglas-firs, Pseudotsuga menziesii.

Gin made from central Oregon's western junipers

Did you know that small distilleries are springing up in central Oregon to produce gin from the "berries" of locally abundant western junipers?

What are female cones and male cones?

What are seed cones? What are pollen cones? Are they different? Learn about cones here.