Spruce aphids can cause severe damage to blue spruce trees. They don’t show up in harmful numbers every year, but when they do, the damage can be so severe it can take years before enough needles grow ...

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 ...

The November 2015 windstorm sent trees flying into homes and onto cars, causing damage that's still not totally fixed. Michael Lundagen at Home Fires Nursery in Spokane told KHQ one tree in particular ...

Lots of people love the look of a blue spruce. The magnificent color of the silver-blue-green needles truly makes this evergreen an American favorite. The biggest problem we often get asked about is ...

A: I think I threw this caller to the radio show for a loop when my answer was, “you know, I’m having trouble thinking of something”. Thankfully, after hearing me falter, other listeners stepped up ...

Q: We have 5.5 acres with several hundred white pines, 7 blue spruce, and 2 red pines. Several of the blue spruce are dying. Several years ago, two started dying from the bottom up. We put evergreen ...

The natural blue shade of color is fading on many local blue spruce trees. That means the trees are dying, and the owner of Hartwood Treecare says it’s all because of fungi. "We’re losing so many of ...

One of the most interesting evergreens is the weeping blue spruce (Picea pungens 'Pendula'). This cultivar of the native Colorado blue spruce was a selected seedling grown in a tree nursery in the ...