Wow, am I ever getting complaints about all those spruce cones. There seems to be an unbelievable bumper crop of cones both in trees and on lawns this spring. Their abundance has been quite a topic of ...

If you've recently walked down a street and stopped in your tracks after spotting far more cones than expected on a spruce tree, you're not the only one. According to Ed Johnson, Professor of ...

Q: My 4-year-old blue spruce has several strange pods that I've never seen before hanging from a branch. I've sent along a picture to see whether you can identify the problem and the appropriate ...

A team of spruce cone collectors from the White River National Forest has been taking advantage of a prime window to stock up on seeds. Sent to a massive nursery in Nebraska, these seeds are intended ...

One of the dominant tree species in our Colorado Rocky Mountain subalpine forests is the spruce. A spruce is an evergreen tree or conifer belonging to genus Picea and there are about 35 species ...

The original Christmas tree was a Spruce, which is distinguished by its cone shape and whorled branches. The needles of a Spruce are attached singly to the branches rather than in bunches, in a spiral ...