Your conifer isn’t dead; it’s deciduous

Your conifer isn’t dead; it’s deciduous

It’s often easy to make assumptions about living things, but nature has a way of showing us that there are always exceptions to any “rule.” One is that all conifers are evergreens. To the uninformed, a conifer with yellow to brown needles in the fall and bare branches in the winter must be dead. In fact, there are three species of deciduous conifers that will grow in Ohio. • Of the three, dawn redwood has the most fascinating story. Long thought…