Conifer Plant. If you're planting a single specimen, dig the planting hole twice the diameter of its container and to the same depth. There are seven families of conifers.
Plant heaths and heathers in open areas, up hillsides, or along pathways. The largest is the pine family (232 species), which includes such familiar trees as pine, spruce, fir, and larch. Collectively, coniferous trees belong to the plant class coniferophyta or pinophyta.