The crown form varies from columnar to pyramidal, ranging from ten to 20 feet in diameter. Colorado blue spruce is a popular landscaping tree and lends a formal effect to any landscape due to the ...

“What’s Wrong with my Colorado Blue Spruce Tree?” Whichever plants you try, use a mix of species if you’re growing them in a group, like a screen or living fence, rather than mass-planting ...

Cytospora canker generally appears on the lower branches first and then progresses up the tree. Individual upper branches may show these symptoms as well (as you are seeing in your blue spruce).

At 45 feet, the De La Cruz tree is one of the smallest donations since the city began soliciting them in 2009. The tallest was a 70-foot blue spruce, which was put up in 2010. “I was really ...

The cones are cylindrical and upright and the shape is very narrow with rigid, upright, or horizontal branching as opposed to "drooping" branches on some spruce trees. Fir tree needles are soft ...

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.

The tree, a 55-foot blue spruce, was chosen as the best among 38 entries to become the winner in the city’s Christmas tree contest, and is courtesy of the Spangler family in Western Springs ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Abby De La Cruz (left) and her parents, Zenaida and Efren, of Darien stand Wednesday in front of the Colorado blue spruce tree selected as the City of Chicago ...