Colorado spruce (Picea pungens), the species with the popular blue-needled cultivars, struggles in Maryland growing conditions. As such, it is at risk for several problems that cause dieback and ...

SCHENECTADY — A year or two after moving to Wendell Avenue in 1975, Bill and Nancy Winkler dressed up their Center Hall Colonial home by planting two four-foot-tall blue spruce trees on either ...

Dave Powell/USDA Forest Service (retired) / Bugwood.org. All spruce trees have sharp-pointed needles that are often 4-sided or diamond-shaped in cross-section and have four whitish striped lines.

As a result, the trees are stressed and more susceptible. There are three major types of diseases that affect blue spruce trees: needlecasts, tip blights and canker diseases.

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The tallest was a 70-foot blue spruce, which was put up in 2010. “I was really excited when [the city] called us to say that they loved our tree, that they wanted to bring our tree downtown ...