Every year a new ring of growth is added to a tree's trunk and branches, just beneath the bark. The thickness of this ring depends on how much the tree grows during the year: favorable growing ...

There are some large limbs hanging too low over my patio that I need to address before spring. Can I just prune these ...

Here are some very important things to consider before (choosing) and planting a new tree, especially large trees such as ...

Pruning a fig tree annually is the gardener's secret to maintaining a happy and healthy tree. It promotes fruit production ...

That being said, chances are, your lemon tree's trunk has several branches growing out of it, exhibiting different stages of ...

A tree is the perfect solution for filling a gap or screening a building or unsightly view. Container-grown trees can be planted out ... the trunk to divert water towards the growing roots.

Identifying a dominant leader and cutting away any competing leaders when a tree is young ... at the end of the first growing season to avoid damaging the trunk and branches and to allow the ...

It puts that wood around the trunk, which grows wider, and into the limbs and the branches, which grow thicker. The giant sequoia is a snow tree, Sillett says, adapted for long winters in the Sierra.