The Allegan Conservation District is introducing a monthly news article program to keep area residents informed on current environmental issues in Allegan County. This month's article discusses a ...

Question: I have a blue spruce that is 40-years old and very tall. It is dying up the middle. I have read about the Needle Cast problem. Also read about Spectro 90 copper based fungus control. I can ...

In recent years, most all spruce varieties have been having difficulty fighting off the fungal disease Rhizosphaera needle cast. This fungal disease causes premature death and casting of needles of ...

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.

Many spruce trees in our area suffer from a common needle disease and are in decline. We get several calls each year with trees showing these symptoms. This information from our Extension Plant ...

The following is by Iowa State University Linn County Extension Master Gardener Intern, Jane Schildroth: Many people are noticing that Blue Spruce trees are looking stressed this summer. According to ...

Living in the humid mid-Atlantic area, we have lots of fungal and bacterial diseases to contend with. There is one in particular that I have seen increase in our area. It is a fungal pathogen called ...

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 like ...

ROCKFORD — If you peer past the ornaments and outer branches at the base of the city's official Christmas tree — a broad and bulky 40-foot-tall blue spruce — you'll find yellow and brown needles along ...

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Purdue Landscape Report: Colorado blue spruce is not native to Indiana (no spruce is!), and it often suffers from environmental stresses such as drought, excessive heat, humidity, and compacted or ...

Seedlings of Norway [Picea abies (L.) Karst.], red (P. rubens Sarg.), black [P. mariana (Mill) B.S.P.] and white [P. glauca (Moench.) Voss] spruce were grown from bud break to bud set outdoors, in the ...