With so many varieties sold as Christmas trees, knowing what differentiates a Douglas fir from a Norway spruce is key to shopping for a real tree you’ll love. You’re likely to see more than one ...

The Ohio State Buckeyes' mascot is named after the Ohio buckeye, the state tree. Ohio buckeye trees can grow up to 60 feet tall and drop their nuts in the fall. All parts of the buckeye tree are ...

It's starting to look a lot like Christmas in midtown Manhattan and Rockefeller Center will join the holiday party on Wednesday with the annual lighting of the Christmas tree. This year's tree was ...

Everything is getting more expensive, but maybe not real Christmas trees. The Real Christmas Tree Board reports that of wholesale growers surveyed, 84% said they do not plan to raise prices for the ...

Omar Villafranca is a CBS News correspondent based in Dallas. He joined CBS News in 2014 as a correspondent for Newspath. Before CBS, Villafranca worked at KXAS-TV Dallas-Fort Worth, at KOTV-TV the ...

One of the most difficult decisions you'll probably make this holiday season is between real and fake. Should you get a real Christmas tree, as more than 30 million people will do this year, according ...

If you're looking to watch the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting on Wednesday, NBCUniversal is your exclusive home. The broadcast will stream live on NBC television and Peacock nationally ...

The 2025 lighting of the 75-foot-tall Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is set for Wednesday, Dec. 3. The event is 7 to 10 p.m. at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in midtown Manhattan. The “Christmas in ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches.” —Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1860-61 More than 150 years after Whitman wrote those lines, the ...

Trees are essential to our survival—from making oxygen so we can breathe, to cooling urban environments, to literally holding the ground together to prevent erosion, trees do so much for us—there ...

Christmas is coming, and so are the end-of-the-year holiday traditions. One season favorite is watching the Rockefeller tree lighting ceremony in New York City. This year's 75-foot-tall Norway Spruce ...

Steve Ottman was born to sell Christmas trees. Ottman, 73, said his family has been growing the holiday staple in Wisconsin since the Great Depression. But now his 50-acre Christmas tree farm just ...