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 ...

A common myth associated with trees is the sap goes down in winter and comes up in spring. The fact is sap remains throughout a tree all year round. The flow of sap slows, even stops, during winter, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many young trees and even some older ones are susceptible to winter sun injury. This is referred to as southwest winter injury or simply sun scald. It is caused by repeated freezing and thawing of the ...

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 ...

One of the things I’ve never understood is why so few landscape contractors and nursery workers wrap the trunks of newly planted trees. It could make a giant improvement in the survival rate of their ...

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 ...