Q: While mowing my lawn, I bumped into the trunk of my maple tree with the lawn mower and knocked some bark off the trunk (see photo). What do you recommend I do? Should I use tree paint to cover the ...

Don't stress if you have a tree that's not looking its best in the bark department. You can save a tree with damaged bark by first assessing the type of damage. Once you know the severity, you have a ...

Q: A branch broke off my tree during a storm. What do I put on the tree to protect it from disease? A: While it is great that you are thinking of tree health, there is nothing you should put on the ...

Trees can be expensive and are valuable plants we need to avoid injuring. Wounds are openings for decay organisms and trees expend energy for wound sealing, setting them up for other issues. During ...

Homeowners may be seeing some lingering effects of last year’s 17-year cicada emergence in smaller branches of trees, but it’s nothing to worry about. “The trees will be fine in the long run, even if ...

“Every wound a tree receives in its lifetime is recorded in the wood,” Alex Shigo said in his “New Tree Biology Dictionary” (Shigo and Trees, Associates, 1986). I would add: Wounds are also recorded ...

I received an urgent call last week. A tractor had knocked a big chunk of bark off of an oak tree and the owner wanted to know what to do about the wound.This kind of incident is all too common, ...

As someone whose job it is to help preserve trees, I find it ironic that in nearly every case I am saving them from us. We injure their root systems, whack them with mowers and weed-eaters, plant them ...

A. One cannot appreciate the damage wind, ice and snow cause to trees until they've experienced a heavy storm. Fortunately, major storms do not occur on a regular basis. The trees that normally take ...