Do evergreens have spring color? The red-tipped Norway spruce (Picea abies ‘Rubra spicata’) does. The tree was found in Czechoslovakia in 1973, propagated in England and introduced in the ...

It is a fast growing tree that is planted on college campuses and town squares, and has germinated in northern boreal forests in the US and Canada. In the first 20 years of life, a Norway spruce can ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Spruce trees grow at either high altitudes in the southern Appalachians ...