Itching to establish new some trees in your yard? Choosing a beginner-friendly species that will do well in your specific ...

Adding a two- to three-inch layer of organic mulch around the base of your maple tree can significantly improve its health.

According to the Royal Horticultural Society: "Apple canker is a disease caused by a fungus, Neonectria ditissima, which attacks the bark of apples and some other trees, causing a sunken area of ...

the stuff that covers branches and tree trunks, otherwise known as bark, may take the biggest bite out of our botanical observations. Crape myrtle is probably the most popular flowering tree in ...

In winter, when most flowering ceases and deciduous trees shed their leaves, the stuff that covers branches and tree trunks, otherwise known as bark, may take the biggest bite out of our botanical ...

Looking at the red maple ... diseases will be ready at the right time to fulfill their needs. Sycamore scale, an insect pest especially common on "Bloodgood" London plane trees, overwinters under ...

When I think about winter survival, my mind first goes to wildlife: field mice curling up in nests, chickadees flocking to bird feeders, and amphibians burrowing into the mud.

Since then the disease has killed billions of elms around the United States and abroad, Held said. Spread by trees whose roots touch each other and by bark beetles that carry spores from the tree, the ...

The approach involves inserting a gene into a citrus tree that produces a protein that can kill baby Asian citrus psyllids, the bugs that transmit the greening disease. That gene normally occurs in a ...

All council-owned trees in the Waipā district have been vaccinated against Dutch elm disease. Photo / Waipā District Council Dutch elm disease is spread by elm bark beetles, which carry the ...