The dwarf Alberta spruce is an evergreen conifer with a classic pyramidal Christmas tree shape. This spruce tree variety is related to trees that grow 100 feet or taller. The most popular landscape ...

Your dream evergreen tree may be a soaring redwood, but the reality of most suburban homesites is you need a tree that won't grow too tall. Finding an evergreen tree to add year-round interest to the ...

This is not the tree to place close to the house. A few cultivars are supposed to stay small, but mostly such trees just grow more slowly than the standard varieties. In 40 years, a dwarf may no ...

Every year, winter will strip the city bare, turning lively blocks into gray corridors and tiny gardens into forgotten corners. That's exactly why evergreens matter so much in urban spaces, especially ...

I'll tell you a little secret if you promise not to laugh. Before I studied horticulture I didn't know the difference among evergreens, spruce, pines or conifers. Before you skip today's column ...

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 ...