Back 100 years ago, the Norway spruce (picea abies) evergreen tree was popular and over-planted. For example, our 1-acre property had nine of these large trees when we moved here in 1960. While they ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Norway's annual Christmas tree gift to London provoked unseasonably abrupt responses on Thursday, including demands that the 24-metre Norwegian spruce be replaced, after it appeared ...

Up hills, around corners, and swooping through the woods I went as my skis swooshed beneath me and poles gripped the trail. A pink sunset glimmered wistfully between the trees, and a pair of ravens ...

Britain’s ambassador to Norway has hit back at critics who called a Norwegian Christmas tree put up in London’s Trafalgar Square “sparse” and “anaemic”. British Ambassador to Norway Richard Wood has ...

From the Northern European Steppes, the Norway spruce amazes people with its impressive longevity and size. The tree can rise to over 150 feet and has long drooping branches that give its distinctive ...

Researchers reported Wednesday that they had sequenced the genome of the Norway spruce, a giant evergreen native to Europe that has also been planted widely in parts of North America. Published in the ...

The 2023 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is making its 200-mile journey from Vestal in upstate New York to the Big Apple. The 80-year-old Norway Spruce was cut down Thursday morning and loaded onto ...

A gifted Christmas tree from Norway has reached its final stop on its journey to London and has been put up in Trafalgar Square. Every year since 1947 a tree has been felled and transported to England ...

WEST STOCKBRIDGE — In the minutes after the chain saw ran through the base of the Norway spruce tree headed for holiday fame, the 71-foot giant hung in stasis before it finally laid horizontal. It was ...

Arborists carefully erected the 12-ton Norwegian Spruce in the midtown tourist trap Saturday morning ahead of the lighting up ceremony later this month. A gaggle of excited passers-by watched as ...