Striking, globe-shaped Dwarf Colorado Blue Spruce is a slow-growing, low-maintenance shrub. Selected for its shape and color, this cultivar grows more wide than tall. Powder blue needles add ...

Here's PennLive garden writer George Weigel's Plant Pick of the Week for this week: * Common name: Dwarf blue spruce 'Fat Albert' * Botanical name: Picea pungens 'Fat Albert' * What it is: A needled ...

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 ...

This will probably come as no surprise to property owners with Colorado blue spruce in their landscape, but the tree is in trouble. “American Nurseryman,” which covers the nursery trade, posted a ...

Q.: With a few exceptions, most of the 2-year-old stock at our new home is looking great this year. We did all the landscaping ourselves. We have four azaleas and last year, both bloom and foliage ...

Q: We have 5.5 acres with several hundred white pines, 7 blue spruce, and 2 red pines. Several of the blue spruce are dying. Several years ago, two started dying from the bottom up. We put evergreen ...

Editor’s note: Throughout the growing season, Mike Hogan, OSU Extension educator for Agriculture and Natural Resources in Franklin County, will answer gardening and home landscape questions submitted ...

Spruce aphids can cause severe damage to blue spruce trees. They don’t show up in harmful numbers every year, but when they do, the damage can be so severe it can take years before enough needles grow ...