Q: We have a tall Norway spruce in our front yard. It's a great tree, but during the past couple of months, it has been shedding newer growth. We were told it was squirrels, but we haven't seen much ...

We were pushing through head-high willows along a brushy caribou trail, five days into our week-long trek across Alaska's Noatak valley, when my hiking partner, Brad Meiklejohn, startled me with a ...

In most Chicago suburbs, you can’t drive a block without seeing a spruce tree. Norway spruce, blue spruce and white spruce are among the most popular trees in the area, prized for their winter color ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Spruce trees grow at either high altitudes in the southern Appalachians to ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Colorado blue spruce is not native to Indiana (no spruce is!), and it often suffers from environmental stresses such as drought, excessive heat, humidity, and compacted or ...

They are a group of unusual-looking plants that start showing up in October and November at big-box stores and garden centers under the catch-all name “holiday cactus.” Others go by more specific ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Red spruce, Picea rubens, is a common forest tree of the Acadian forest ...