Although we are making an afghan square this week, it has a Christmas motif.. The center is a Christmas tree. What you must decide is how wide and how long you want each square; also what size ...

Henderson decided they needed a Christmas tree. They were in Gardez, Afghanistan, and didn’t know where to find one, so they consulted with the Afghan partner force at their firebase.

According to the Texas A&M Forest Service, the most widely grown Texas Christmas trees are the Virginia pine, Afghan pine, eastern redcedar shortleaf pine, Arizona cypress and Leyland cypress.

Junell and LeRoy Paul added Christmas trees to their hay and vegetable farm in 2000. The long-needled Afghan pines have thrived in the fertile river bottom land. "Even though they're a desert pine ...