Do you have a tree with a dead, damaged, badly placed or rotting branch that needs to be pruned off? To avoid danger to yourself and damage to the tree, plan carefully before you cut. “Wood is ...

You can save a tree with damaged bark by first assessing the type of ... In addition, you'll want to grab a knife and some branches/twigs. While there's no guarantee the bridges will save the ...

But winter is precisely the time for shrubs with colorful branches and trees with ornamental bark to shine. Bark serves as the skin of the tree, protecting the internal plumbing from disease or ...

Healthy tree bark grows in different colors and is often a nice rich brown, but can also be gray or white. Natural tree ...

Every year a new ring 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 conditions ...

Like the trees that produce them ... Some gnarled old bristlecones have only a thin strip of living bark, which sustains a single living branch and its needles. In a sense, these ancients have ...

By Aislinn Sarnacki Have you ever noticed how much tree bark varies in texture, color and pattern? If your answer is “no,” I ...