These living trees add a splash of color and cheer to any room of the house. Here's how to keep them alive into the new year and beyond.

Because of its small size and Christmas-tree shape, the dwarf Alberta spruce is a favorite evergreen across many parts of the country. This cute little tree keeps its conical shape as it grows slowly ...

You may have heard that pruning spruce trees in the landscape is an important way of maintaining their health, size, shape, and vigor. But this is more applicable to deciduous trees than evergreens.

Dear Carol: I planted some dwarf Alberta spruce trees about 15 years ago. Today they are about 41/2 feet tall and one has a "relative" growing out of the top of it. About 3 years ago I noticed a ...

This spruce tree will never fill back in after being cut back too severely into the bare inner branches. Q: My dwarf Alberta spruce is obviously not a dwarf anymore. It's grown bigger than I want it ...

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 ...

Evergreen trees grow well in containers, as long as you get the cultivar and conditions right. One specific genus looks great and smells like Christmastime.

Q. This is one of our two dwarf Alberta spruce trees. In the fall we noticed the very top of one turning brown; it kept getting worse from top down, and we noticed white webs. We took a picture of it, ...

Q: Our dwarf Colorado blue spruce is no longer dwarf. It's nearly five feet tall and probably just as wide. Can it be trimmed? If so, when is the best time to do this? - Shirley Smedshammer, Fargo. A: ...