Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hand pruning a spruce tree. You may have heard that pruning spruce trees in the landscape is an important way of maintaining ...

Gigantic glistening snowflakes gently tumbled from the gray sky to land on thick branches of the spruce outside the picture window. Although I had a long list of things to do, the swirling snowflakes ...

Spruce bark beetle kills and mayday trees are in the news these days, and I get lots of questions about them. An email from an old friend covers quite a few of the questions I have been getting this ...

Spruce bark contains high levels of phenolic compounds that help protect trees from harmful fungi. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena wanted to understand how these ...

Loveland’s tree streets include 22 streets named for trees in the Pine Family. The family includes 234 species worldwide and they separate into nine groups: cedars, Douglas-firs, firs, golden-larch, ...