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 ...

Learn how to use small trees for landscaping to create the ideal backyard in every season — even if you don't have much space ...

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 ...

Winter doesn’t have to mean dull, lifeless landscapes or gray backyards that look like something out of a black-and-white ...

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 ...

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 ...