It’s important to know how to prune a lemon tree if you want a healthy plant abundant with zesty fruit. Lemon trees are a popular addition to patios, and make delightful house plants in conservatories ...

Pruning can help direct branches away from power lines and other obstacles, create a more pleasing shape or – in the case of fruit trees – encourage the plant to produce in a way where ...

And new leaves emerging from bare branches signal the beginning of spring in a way that new growth on evergreen trees and shrubs never can. Second, it creates a whole new personality for a plant ...

Anthracnose is a common spring disease on maple trees. Several different fungi can cause the symptoms we describe as anthracnose.

The monsoon season is here. Whether or not we get rain is yet to be seen. However, even if we don’t receive the rain, we ...

Sparkleberries have a particularly attractive vase-shaped form. They grow in twists and bends and make a lovely specimen tree. Growing 15 to 25 feet tall, they do not attain the height to ...

Q: I moved into my house last summer and all the trees in the yard looked fine. Now, in the middle of the winter, I am finding broken branches under the maples. The branches are so dry that when I … ...

Think of what happens to tree branches that suffer direct hail strikes as "bruises." The bark covering the cambium (a very important, delicate layer of living/growing wood directly beneath the ...