It's been a busy Monday morning at Millennium Park with the arrival of the 45-foot Colorado blue spruce from Darien, which was chosen to be the city's official Christmas tree this year.

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, symmetrical ...

Workers lift Chicago’s 2024 Christmas tree, a 53-foot Colorado blue spruce planted 50 years ago by former homeowner Jim Mulligan, in the Logan Square neighborhood on Nov. 1, 2024.

A suburban family's 55-foot Colorado Blue Spruce tree will soon have a new home: Millennium Park in Chicago. The tree, which has adorned the front lawn of a Morton Grove home for decades, beat out ...

A 53-year-old Colorado spruce tree from the home of Mike and Vesna Glisovic, in the 6600 block of Church Street in Morton Grove, is shown before it was cut, lifted and placed onto a flat bed truck ...

This year’s tree (the city’s 110th) — a 45-foot-tall Colorado blue spruce — was donated by the De La Cruz family of southwest suburban Darien. Abby De La Cruz and her parents, Zenaida and ...

The Downtown Dayton Partnership announced Tuesday that the search for an annual holiday centerpiece has officially began.

Farm grows Canaan fir, Colorado spruce and white pine. Choose and cut your own tree (5 feet to 16 feet tall). Farm provides hand saws, sleds, twine, and a DIY tree-shaking machine.

Colorado spruce (Picea pungens), the species with the popular blue-needled cultivars, struggles in Maryland growing conditions. As such, it is at risk for several problems that cause dieback and ...

One dry season meant Western spruce budworm affected 217,000 acres of state forests in 2024, up from 202,000 acres in 2023, according to the CSU survey. Precipitation in four of the last five ...

John McGuin, center, drags his Christmas tree out of the Pike National Forest near Buffalo Creek, Colo. on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015. At left is his sister-in-law Amy, and at right is brother Patrick.

A Colorado blue spruce tree can live more than 600 years and reach heights of more than 70 feet. Glenda Walls' memorial blue spruce was about 40 feet tall when hurricane-force winds ripped through ...