Our purpose was to have an all-red tree, a variety of red ... About 20 varieties of pine trees produce cones. Cypress, cone, spruce, and fir are a few. The cones are quite different in shape ...

Four red squirrels poke their heads from a boreal owl box in May 2024. (Photo by Ned Rozell) White spruce trees produce great pulses of cones every two to six years. Other years, trees grow no cones.