We planted five blue spruce about 5 years ago on the edge of our property. They were growing great. But this year one tree has dropped its needles - piles of them. This tree sits in the middle of the ...

DURANGO – Twelve years ago, Ken Martin of Steamworks Brewing Co. wanted to try a unique recipe that would tie a local brew to the San Juan Mountains. It would be modeled after an Olde English ale that ...

Purdue Landscape Report: There have been a number of samples we have received at the PPDL in recent weeks that bear similar problems worth noting. It is still relatively early for significant ...

Editors note: Throughout the growing season, Mike Hogan, OSU Extension Educator for Agriculture & Natural Resources in Franklin County, will answer gardening questions submitted by Dispatch readers.

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 ...

I'll tell you a little secret if you promise not to laugh. Before I studied horticulture I didn't know the difference among evergreens, spruce, pines or conifers. Before you skip today's column ...

The following is by Iowa State University Linn County Extension Master Gardener Intern, Jane Schildroth: Many people are noticing that Blue Spruce trees are looking stressed this summer. According to ...

Colorado Blue Spruce trees have long been landscape favorites because of their stately shape and unusual color. Picea pungens has a symmetrical form that can grow from 30 to 60 feet tall with a 10 to ...

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 ...