Purdue Urban Forestry specialist Ben McCallister recently wrote about tips for tree care as we transition into autumn and ...

My biggest garden surprise this year was a lack of Japanese Beetles. I’m not complaining, of course, but totally surprised. I ...

Protecting your peach tree in winter ensures healthy growth and a strong fruit harvest when the warm weather returns. Wrap ...

One of the biggest threats to newly planted trees in Northeast Ohio is—you guessed it—deer. Deer eat leaves, buds, and even ...

After last week’s column on transplanting 8-year-old plum trees was published, City of Las Cruces Community Forester Jimmy Zabriskie contacted me about another important consideration: sunscald.

Summer sunscald happens on trees when bark gets too hot. This happens on young tree trunks or young branches of older trees. Bark gets so hot that cells die. Winter sunscald happens in colder weather ...

Newly planted trees need a steady supply of water and this reality presents a special challenge when the trees in question are planted in parkways along city streets. In Los Angeles, the concrete ...

Tree is an eternal plant with stem, trunk, branches, and leaves. In other definition tree is only the woody plant which after growth and care make a tree. These are useful as lumber when these are ...

Answer: Have you ever noticed bark buckling off the tree trunk? I first noticed it in a mature mulberry tree in my yard in Las Cruces a few years ago. The bark on the west side of the trunk had ...