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 ...

Question for Dan Gill: Recently I had a large Shumard oak tree planted by a local nursery. In the process of planting, they damaged a small section (five inches by six inches) of the bark, about a ...

It started with squalling tires and a big bang. Someone going too fast missed the 90-degree corner below our neighbor’s house and plowed head on into his 50-year-old silver maple. The driver didn’t ...

Hurt the bark of a young tree with a mower and you’ll do permanent damage to the tree. The cause is not improper watering, fertilizing or one of the many other practices that help a tree to grow ...

Q: Should we be concerned with the split in the trunk of the Frontyard Linden we purchased and had professionally planted in 2022, and the split appeared two years later? A garden center told us not ...

Dear Neil: Attached is a pre-freeze photo of a neighbor’s persimmon tree. Do you have any idea what might have caused the unusual wounds? A: Not with certainty. One guess would be some type of a ...

Winter is on its way, but gardening season is far from over. We’re still getting plenty of questions to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension ...