This year’s “world’s most famous Christmas tree” was donated by the Russ family of East Greenbush. WAMC’s Samantha Simmons ...

You may have heard that pruning spruce trees in the landscape is an important way of maintaining their health, size, shape, and vigor. But this is more applicable to deciduous trees than evergreens.

This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, a 75-foot-tall Norway spruce from East Greenbush, New York, carries a story ...

Mount Vernon couple begins selling potted and live trees as their long-term Christmas tree vision continues to grow ...

Judy Russ and her son, Liam, 7, shared their excitement over their family's Norway spruce being used as this year's Rockefeller Center tree in memory of husband and father Dan Russ.

About 10 years later, the homeowner planted another tree beside the Norway spruce — a pine tree that came with a McDonald’s Happy Meal. It was McDonald’s response to then-President H. W. Bush’s 1990 ...

Chicago's 112th Christmas tree was donated by the Mason family in north suburban Glenview. The 68-foot Norway spruce is now ...

Blue spruce (Picea pungens f. glauca), also called Colorado blue spruce, is a beautiful tree with blue-gray needles. Being colorful and relatively drought tolerant, it’s a favorite of many homeowners ...

Female (left) and male spruce cones at the Arnold Arboretum. It's a more common sight to see separate male and female cones like this. (Courtesy William "Ned" Friedman) Every spring the conifer trees ...

In nature, you’ll see several types of spruce trees (Picea spp.) that are beautiful, rugged evergreens capable of lasting ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Red spruce, Picea rubens, is a common forest tree of the Acadian forest ...