Fir trees typically keep their needles longer than pines. The needles have a strong Christmas tree aroma that makes front ...

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 ...

These living trees add a splash of color and cheer to any room of the house. Here's how to keep them alive into the new year and beyond.

Know all of the different options before you head out to the tree farm. In the meantime, you may want to learn about the different types of trees that are available—varieties like Douglas fir, blue ...

What was once an everyday sight around our region is gradually vanishing before our eyes, but a graduate student at Virginia ...

Gigantic glistening snowflakes gently tumbled from the gray sky to land on thick branches of the spruce outside the picture window. Although I had a long list of things to do, the swirling snowflakes ...

Spruce trees provide two types of food; cones like this one that contain seeds for birds to eat and needles that caterpillars eat. / BILL DANIELSON / For the Gazette Sign up for the Gazette's morning ...