Q: Could you provide some basic guidance on how not to kill a tree? I see conflicting information everywhere! Unfortunately, there are many ways to kill a tree, so I will try to cover the most common ...

Q.: My Japanese maple is about 20 years old now. The trunk is divided and I have thought of securing the two trunks together with something because of the extra weight of snow and ice in the winter.

Q: Could you provide some basic guidance on how not to kill a tree? I see conflicting information everywhere! A: Unfortunately, there are many ways to kill a tree, so I will try to cover the most ...

We have a prairie fire crabapple tree that has very severe splitting in almost all of the major branches. There is some evidence of old bark splits that have healed over that we did not notice until ...

I’ve been answering gardeners’ tree questions for 54 years. I thought you might enjoy seeing some of the more interesting ones. Why is bark falling off my crape myrtles? That’s normal. Horticulturists ...