Hi! We have this tree in our front yard. I can’t say what kind. It was here when when bought the house and has always seemed quite healthy. Over the course of the last few days it’s started turning brown but we got up this morning and it’s dropped a lot of needles and looks dead! How did this happen over night and do we need to take it down? Location is NE Ohio and it was a very hot, dry, harsh summer.
by Sensitvesoul67
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It was dead a long time ago, it just takes a long time for the needles to dry and change colors
>Use the term conifer instead of evergreen. An evergreen tree is one that keeps its leafs year-round, and while most conifers are evergreen, there are wayyyy more broadleaf trees that are.
>A conifer is a clade of trees that includes pines, spruce, cedars, firs, hemlocks, true cedars (like your atlas cedar cultivar), etc. Essentially all trees with scale or needle type leafs.
I thought this was a 100 gecs post
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_gecs
Looks like a blue spruce, it has needlecast disease. Remove it and wait a year so it doesn’t infect the next plant. Then plant something native, maybe a concolor fir.