Once leaves drop from trees, splitting, peeling, bleached or oozing bark may become more noticeable. The cause can range from normal bark development to environmental causes or disease. If tree bark ...

I’ve been answering gardeners’ tree questions for 54 years. I thought you might enjoy seeing some of the more interesting ones. Why is bark falling off my crape myrtles? That’s normal. Horticulturists ...

You can always expect tree trunks to show up for the big spring dance with a variety of issues. This year it’s more evident than ever. Because it’s easy to overlook problems when they’re hiding in ...

Here in New England, the pine bark beetle also seems to be causing more tree deaths than previously, and ecologists have ...

We have a Prairiefire crabapple tree that has severe splitting in almost all of the major branches. There is some evidence of old bark splits that have healed over that we did not notice until ...

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 ...

Q. I came across your gardening articles. I do have a question about my loquat tree, and I was wondering if you would be willing to help me identify the problem. I have attached several pictures to ...