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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The Downtown Dayton Partnership announced Tuesday that the search for an annual holiday centerpiece has officially began.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
A one-inch tree will require 10 gallons of water each time it is watered. For mature trees — 10 inches in diameter or more — apply 15 gallons of water per inch of tree diameter.