Nature Notes: Spruce, fir or hemlock? By MIKE KAY DNR Forester for Frederick County Dec 9, 2018 Dec 9, 2018; ... Forty species of spruce trees are found throughout the world, ...

Example of conifer trees include pine, fir, spruce and cedar. Some shrubs which are conifers include juniper, arborvitae and others. Garden: Flowering plants that thrive in full sun and high heat.

Red spruce is the most voluminous tree in Maine because it grows into a larger tree.). Balsam fir tie with beech for most common in New Hampshire. Balsam fir wasn’t always the most common.

Joanne Levesque/Getty Images. Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), also called Canada hemlock or hemlock spruce, is a slow-growing long-lived tree which unlike many conifers grows well in shade ...

Hemlock woolly adelgid target hemlock and fir trees. The pests are invasive, sucking, aphid-like insects causing trees to die. They are too small to be seen by the eye, but the damage is visible.

How to tell a spruce from a fir, and which is best for holiday decorating? Published: Dec. 24, 2024, 10:00 a.m. In choosing a Christmas tree, how to tell a juniper from a pine.

To tell spruce and fir trees apart, it helps to know that spruce needles are sharply pointed, square and easy to roll between your fingers. Fir needles, on the other hand, are softer, flat and ...

Topping my list of champions of snowy winters are our fir trees, which have numerous adaptations for wintery conditions. Eastern hemlocks and balsam fir are, literally, built for snow.