While most varieties of Japanese maples grow only 6 to 12 inches a year, pruning helps maintain their shape and keep them healthy. Remove dead, damaged, or crossing branches to improve airflow and ...

Winter is the perfect time for certain trees, but timing is crucial. Pruning at the right moment can keep your trees ...

Gardening season is underway, and you may have questions. To ask one, simply go to the OSU Extension website, type it in and include the county where you live. A photo is very helpful. Q: Is there a ...

Maintaining the shape of shrubs and trees is a practice that has been associated with beauty and tranquility for centuries. Highly ornamental trees like the Japanese maple grow into stunning specimens ...

January is a great month to get started with gardening, particularly when one of the plants you have is a Japanese maple tree ...

Q. I have a three-year old Japanese dissected maple tree near my home. The trunk is about three and one-half inches in diameter. Very near the ground is a fork, with another about three feet up the ...

A common piece of advice you will hear is to prune trees during the winter while they are dormant. I often give that advise myself and, for most kinds of trees, that is a good rule to follow. However, ...

Q: We have a maple tree that should be pruned. For one thing, it has grown a couple of branches only 3 feet from the ground. We are afraid to cut off the branches because we have been told that will ...

Pruning this sappy tree in early spring is basically an open invitation for destructive fungus and troublesome pests — here's ...

Q: Once again, I’m calling on you to help me with a couple of problems with my yard. Firstly, I have a volunteer maple tree ...

Annual pruning can help maintain your tree’s health, but let its growth guide you. If the tree has areas of dense growth, inward- or upright-growing shoots, or poor structure, pruning is in order. The ...