The balsam fir is found from eastern Minnesota to areas of New York and New England. This range covers about 4 percent of the total land area of the United States, yet 13 percent of all Christmas ...

Balsam fir is the smell of winter for many northern winter solstice traditions - Christmas, for example.

The most aromatic is Balsam fir, which has blue-green needles, but the stiffer branches of Fraser, concolor, and Canaan firs are better at holding heavy ornaments.

MarketWatch, a finance-focused website, recently reported that wholesale prices of real Christmas trees will rise thanks to an uptick in the cost of transportation, rent, utilities and labor.

Amazon shoppers are snapping up the LA JOLIE MUSE Balsam Fir & Cedarwood Candle for just £26. The Christmas tree scented candle even crackles when it burns for the ultimate festive candle.

Feltham kneels down to plant a balsam fir sapling into the ground inside the moose exclosure in Terra Nova National Park. Staff at the park will plant about 7,000 saplings this year. (Garrett ...

Teams of workers are pulling up 'jungles' of Himalayan Balsam before it can fire its seeds up to 20 feet away to start new colonies.

Northcott said that, traditionally, people just went into the woods, collected balsam fir cones off the trees, extracted the seeds, and then took them to a nursery to be grown into trees.

Christmas tree production is one of Nova Scotia’s oldest rural industries and the province is known worldwide for its quality balsam fir. "The quality of Christmas trees that you're getting out of our ...