KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Colorado blue spruce trees have long been one of the more popular conifers for landscaping across the upper Midwest. Now, diseases are killing blue spruce trees across West Michigan ...

An old grouping of large blue spruces in my front yard has been continuing to decline in health over the last few years with lower branches dying first and then progressing up the tree. What can I do ...

A potentially devastating disease epidemic is attacking our region's most common evergreen trees. Colorado, Black Hills and Norway spruce have long been planted in yards and shelterbelts. Most of the ...

Editors note: Throughout the growing season, Mike Hogan, OSU Extension Educator for Agriculture & Natural Resources in Franklin County, will answer gardening questions submitted by Dispatch readers.

"Phomopsis cankers are causing shoot blight symptoms in nurseries and a general decline of spruce trees in the landscape," according to a report published on the Michigan State University Extension ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — When searching for a Christmas tree to bring home this year, you may face a decline in spruce trees across Indiana as a sickness is causing them to lose their glow. Spruce ...

Bagworms are not the only issue we are seeing in evergreens. While insecticides for bagworms should not be applied until June, April and May are the months to apply fungicides for control of the ...

Question: 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 ...