Spruce up your yard! With cold-weather hardiness, evergreen beauty and a range of sizes and shapes, the many types of spruce ...

Dead spruce trees are cropping up around Prince Edward Island this year, and service companies are seeing an increase in ...

Q: I stumbled upon your Web site while searching for information on the Norway spruce trees I planted in late April. I watered the trees on a regular basis for two to three months after planting.

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 ...

The Government provides grants that cover the full cost of planting as well as annual premiums, paid out over 20 years, ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — When searching for a Christmas tree to bring home this year, you may face a decline in spruce trees across Indiana as a sickness is causing them to lose their glow.

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — When searching for a Christmas tree to bring home this year, you may face a decline in spruce trees across Indiana as a sickness is causing them to lose their glow.

When needles are shed, these projections remain. As a result, the branches of spruce trees feel rough. Fir branches lack these projections, and thus have smooth bark.

Together, the results illustrate how trees can “remember” times of abundance as well as scarcity. The latter, as illustrated by the spruce study, bodes well for trees’ ability to cope with a ...

Plant protection in times of climate change These new findings could help develop natural pesticides. For instance, monoterpenes, which are toxic to bark beetles, could be applied to tree bark ...