Spruce up your yard! With cold-weather hardiness, evergreen beauty and a range of sizes and shapes, the many types of spruce trees offer something for every landscape. Spruces are tall ...

Today, the main human use of the blue spruce, other than as an ornamental, is for harvesting Christmas trees and has been planted in many parts of the continental United States. Even in the ...

No holiday is complete without picking the best Christmas tree. Here's how to pick a long-lasting, live X-mas tree, whether you want fir, spruce, or pine, according to experts.

One of the dominant tree species in our Colorado Rocky Mountain subalpine forests is the spruce. A spruce is an evergreen tree or conifer belonging to genus Picea and there are about 35 species ...

Whatever your priority may be, check out the guide below to help you decide between a fir, pine and spruce tree, the three most popular Christmas tree varieties in Northeast Ohio.

An ornamental European bird cherry tree stands in a yard in Anchorage's Airport Heights neighborhood on Aug. 19, 2021. (Loren Holmes / ADN) Spruce bark beetle kills and mayday trees are in the ...

Black spruce is used to make paper pulp and for Christmas trees. A product called spruce gum is also obtained from this species and its leaves are boiled to produce the flavor of "spruce beer." ...

In recent years, most all spruce varieties have been having difficulty fighting off the fungal disease Rhizosphaera needle cast.

A Lijiang spruce at the Arnold Arboretum has produced a rare batch of cones that are half male, half female. Typically the tree would have separate pollen-producing male cones and other seed ...