But I talk about the "irregular," I want to mention a few of the "regular" landscape maintenance issues for this time of year. If you haven't put out a pre-emergent or a fall application of fertilizer ...

Dear Neil: This oak tree is located on our church property. Is the old bark falling off due to its age, or is there a disease? A: Good question. It looks a bit like the radial shake we saw so ...

Q: I have a house in Houston. Does blooming of tropical trees like Bauhinia, Erythrina and Tabebuia depend on their age or size? I plant these trees in the ground. They freeze. They come back but they ...

Oak trees around Minnesota have suffered from bouts of heavy precipitation and drought — conditions that make them more vulnerable to two-lined chestnut borer, a beetle that eats the inner bark of oak ...

Winter is the perfect time to prune oak trees. Oak trees are special for many reasons: they’re Iowa’s state tree, they’re important to our ecosystem and — they shouldn’t be pruned during the spring ...

When fall’s cold nights kill the flowers and cause so many of our trees and shrubs to drop their leaves, the bareness shines our focus on what’s left – for one thing, tree trunks. Trunks and their ...