Q: I have a blue spruce that I am looking to prune. I want to remove the lower limbs in order to raise the canopy so it starts at 10 to 12 feet, providing more light and space to navigate under ...

For the most part, spruce pruning is not necessary, but it’s good to know how and when to remove damaged branches or control their size.

Go have another cup of coffee and skip that job! If you insist on being a tip pruner, you should stop once you cannot reach the entire tree. Blue Spruce (Picea pungens), does not tolerate humid ...

Q: We have three large blue-spruce trees in our yard and over the years, each of them has developed dead branches on different parts of the tree.

Q: I read your column every week. The question I have concerns a blue spruce hedge. The hedge runs along the side of our property that stretches about 50 metres containing about 30-40 trees. They ...

Some very intense blue spruce include: Hoopsi, Moerheim and Thompson. Q: My Sugar Maple tree has brown, crispy leaves on it. What is wrong ? A: Sugar Maples are very sensitive trees.

In most Chicago suburbs, you can’t drive a block without seeing a spruce tree. Norway spruce, blue spruce and white spruce are among the most popular trees in the area, prized for their winter ...

A 30-year-old blue spruce tree has been dropping tips of its branches. Why—and what can be done? Melinda Myers answers this and other questions.

Q: We have a spruce lined border to the back of our subdivision that our yard is a part of. Many of the trees are beginning to lose all the needles on a few low branches on each tree. It looks ...

Since these branches are in the deep shade below the tree and another tree, it is likely that they are not providing enough benefit to the spruce (photosynthesis-wise) and thus the needles are dying.

This week's Plant Pick of the Week is a compact version of the popular Colorado blue spruce tree.