December brings an ideal moment to care for a popular ornamental tree, giving gardeners a chance to support strong growth and ...

It might feel like pruning your apple trees in the dead of winter makes no sense. In fact, your dormant trees will thank you ...

The squiggly trunks and branches of Black Locust stand out in the winter landscape. Photos by Katie Finch Leaves are probably the most common feature used to identify trees. But in winter, when so ...

There’s a lot of benefits to artificial Christmas trees. However, it’s easy to step back and get discouraged when it looks bare in some spots, awkward folded branches, and you can clearly see the pole ...

Question: We have two 15-year-old Fan Tex Ash trees that are spreading out too far. How far can we cut them back without killing them? Ash has little ability to come back from cut limbs if you cut ...

An arborist making a casual visit to our place would have a fit. You see, every tree that we can get to survive earns a place with us, not merely the textbook perfectly-shaped specimens, but all that ...

Roger Snipes of the Inland Empire Bonsai Society prunes or defoliates leaves off a hedge maple he is training. (Pat Munts/For The Spokesman-Review) Buy this photo For Roger Snipes, working with his ...