Getting that this-floor-has-been-here-forever look by using reclaimed hardwood can run you anywhere from $12 to upward of $20 per square foot, depending on the mix of the woods and the finish.

Year-old pine and hardwood seedlings will be sold in St. Tammany and several other parishes during the week of March 4 by the state Department of Agriculture and Forestry. In ...

Katharine Strock added that 2.5 bales of longleaf pine straw mulch is equivalent to one cubic yard of hardwood mulch – covering roughly 100 square feet at two to three inches deep.

When such fields are colonized, additional pine species as well as hardwoods will invariably show up, too, resulting eventually in what ecologists sometimes call a “mixed pine-hardwood” stand.

A 1-year-old longleaf pine tree. For every bale of longleaf pine straw mulch sold by Mid-Atlantic Pine Straw Mulch in Chester County, the company donates one seedling to the Longleaf Alliance.