Even though we still seem to be in the deep grips of winter, our dormant-season pruning will quickly come to an end. If you had plans to get dormant-season tree pruning done, it is important to get it ...

Q: I purchased a piece of land last year with three silver birch trees on it. The largest is about 30 feet tall and had a low branch removed many years ago. The inside of the stub rotted and was ...

Q: I have a clump of four white birch trees that look very healthy. However, winter ice storms have caused the trees to look bad. They look great up to about 20 feet, then they start to droop in every ...

Now is the time to focus our attention on the outdoors again, if only for a short time. Winter is the proper time to prune many summer-flowering trees and shrubs. Pruning is done to keep trees and ...

One the most frequently asked gardening question concerns pruning. Many ask if it’s OK to prune any time the temperature changes, particularly if there is extremely cold weather as we’ve experienced ...

I asked an experienced arborist the other day what he thought about pruning apple trees in the fall. His answer was the same as mine: “Prune when you have time and the pruners in your hand.” Yes, ...

Q. (My) birch tree, planted many years ago, has never really grown full. In the spring, it will get tiny green leaves but (it’s) still very airy and not full foliage. We’ve been told not to prune it.

Tree owners who have broken limbs in their trees or are just taking advantage of early pruning opportunities may notice large amounts of “water” that seem to be pouring out of the branch. This is ...