We spoke master arborist John Snow to get expert advice about what homeowners should know before planting a tree in their front yards.

How two trees — the pine and the elm — grew together, and what they can show us Lorry Myers I used to be the person who stood at the window, looked at the yard and thought only how pretty it was.

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A few feet away, a few pine trees are also dead, with the bark peeling right off one. That looks like a lightning strike. But the other trees are 20 feet away, with healthy plants between them.

Not every pine that has dead needles is infected with diplodia tip blight. “It’s normal for pine trees and other evergreens to lose some of their oldest needles every fall,” Yiesla said.

A local arborist said he’s seeing a critical issue with pine trees and beetles that was brought about by the drought.“I don’t think we’ve experienced anything like this in 40 years,” Silas Richmond, ...