Trees are, or soon will be, losing their leaves. That will make their trunks all the more visible. That’s when you’ll begin ...

Question for Dan Gill: Recently I had a large Shumard oak tree planted by a local nursery. In the process of planting, they damaged a small section (five inches by six inches) of the bark, about a ...

Although they don’t spew ash or ooze lava, mulch “volcanoes” wreak their own kind of havoc. Mounded against tree trunks in sloping piles suggesting a miniature Mount St. Helens, too much mulch can ...

The tree as a we now view it—primary trunk, large height, crown of leaves or fronds—didn't clearly exist until the late Devonian. But fossil trunks such as the ones at right (Eospermatopteris, named ...

While a fall application of mulch can be beneficial to plants, we have seen a growing trend of piling mulch much deeper than ...

Q: The leaves on my fig tree appear burned after this rain. I foliar sprayed it with neem oil and soap and fish protein isolate. These trees were planted last fall and mulched with 1 foot of woodchips ...

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