Winter may seem like an odd time to head out with your pruners, but it's actually the ideal season for many trees and shrubs. With the leaves gone and branches exposed, you can clearly see the ...

Trees with shallow root systems. In warmer climates where the soil may not stay frozen all winter, shallow-rooted trees such as dogwood, redbud, and Japanese maple are vulnerable to damage from ...

Evergreen trees don’t shed their leaves or needles every winter like deciduous trees, hence the name ‘evergreen’. Instead, the leaves and needles have a waxy coating called cutin that helps ...

In the fall, deciduous trees shed their leaves as a protective measure to prepare for the upcoming winter cold. Deciduous trees include oaks, maples, birches and willows, and any other tree you ...

People have been celebrating the summer solstice with elaborate rituals since prehistoric times. But humans aren’t the only ...

Trees are pruned for many reasons. Often they are practical reasons of how they impact on our lives, such as to ensure a tree ...

Have you ever sat beneath the branches of a stately weeping willow in full bloom in late winter? Or have you ever taken in ...

We saw die-back in trees coming out of winter. In some cases, it is environmental stress from drought stress and winter ...