If you have cleaned up the vegetable garden and cut back your perennials, you might be feeling just a little smug — especially since this gardening guy admits he is behind you in completing those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bark beetles are dark flying insects about the size of a grain of rice that leave tiny holes in the bark and branches of trees.

Transplanting a tree in your yard can be traumatic for it. If you add the hardships of cold weather on top of uprooting, a newly transplanted tree may not make it through the winter. Recently planted ...

I use my line trimmer around my lawn edges, trees and deck. My wife read that trimmers can damage trees. Doesn’t the bark protect trees from damage? Line trimmers are a very handy tool for edging and ...

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 ...

Many readers ask why it is so important to expose trunk flares. Trunk flares are part of the trunk, not part of a tree’s root system. Bark protects tree trunks from atmospheric elements, but it does ...

Tree is an eternal plant with stem, trunk, branches, and leaves. In other definition tree is only the woody plant which after growth and care make a tree. These are useful as lumber when these are ...

If you slit somebody's throat, you sever the carotid artery, stopping blood flow between brain and body. What the carotid is to a human being, the cambium layer is to a tree. It connects the leaves ...

Tree Trunk Goop used on a damaged young maple tree. Formula is equal parts natural diatomaceous earth, compost and soft rock phosphate mixed with water. Howard Garrett / Special Contributor Summer ...

It started with squalling tires and a big bang. Someone going too fast missed the 90-degree corner below our neighbor’s house and plowed head on into his 50-year-old silver maple. The driver didn’t ...