When we spend time outdoors in deep cold, we often get red noses and chapped cheeks. In a young tree, sudden, deep cold can cause more severe damage: cracks in the bark. Such cracks, called frost ...

If you’ve ever planted a young tree, you know how much care they need, especially when cold weather rolls in. Winter brings freezing temperatures, harsh winds, and sudden temperature swings that can ...

If you have cleaned up the vegetable garden and cut back your perennials, you might be feeling just a little smug — especially since this gardening guy admits he is behind you in completing those ...

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 ...

Don't stress if you have a tree that's not looking its best in the bark department. You can save a tree with damaged bark by first assessing the type of damage. Once you know the severity, you have a ...

We have a prairie fire crabapple tree that has very 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 ...