Got young trees growing in your garden and live in a cold climate? Protecting your saplings from winter sunscald is essential. Here's how.

This is, indeed, sun scald — the worst case I’ve seen for a while. Oaks are especially vulnerable since they have such thin bark. When they are moved from a nursery environment into a landscape where ...

With trees, as with elephants and in swimming, trunks are important. They’re part of trees’ beauty, strength, majesty, and mystique. We have things to discuss. Like people, trunks come in all shapes ...

Q: My dad helped me plant a couple of young apple trees in my backyard last weekend and so far, so good. After we finished I said the only thing I had left to do was paint the trunks white. He looked ...

Dear Neil: We purchased a red oak early this summer. It is 13 feet tall and planted in good soil. We water it six days a week with about three gallons per day on the base and leaves. We’ve been told ...

Last week I talked about winter desiccation injury on evergreen trees and shrubs. Another type of winter injury is sunscald or southwest injury on the trunks of deciduous trees. Sunscald occurs when ...

When the bark peels off, so does the cambium. The supply line to the roots is lost. The roots die because the phloem has been ...

Having a fruit tree in your yard is the gift that keeps on giving. Every year, you can enjoy its edible bounty — it always seems to taste a little bit sweeter than grocery store produce. Growing fruit ...

Protect susceptible evergreen magnolias by double-wrapping burlap around the trees. Surround small deciduous magnolias with ...

Did you hear about the guy who was afraid his expensive tree was dead? It finally budded out, which was a major re-leaf. Northern winters separate the wheat from the chaff, where trees, shrubs and ...

Hot temperatures occur every summer in Texas and can cause ugly scars on young smooth tree trunks. Sunscald is a physiological disorder that occurs on the lower part of the trunk on the southwest side ...

Grass and vegetation against the trunk of a stone fruit tree provides a humid and secluded place for female borer moths to lay their eggs. Grass against a trunk also increases the likelihood of string ...