Q: My dad helped me plant a couple of young apple trees in my backyard last weekend and so far, so good. After we finished I said the only thing I had left to do was paint the trunks white. He looked ...

Q. I just planted a fruit tree and was told by a friend that I should paint the trunk with white paint. I really don’t like the idea of a tree painted with white paint in my front yard. Is it really ...

Seeing blue dots, red Xs, orange circles and purple bands on trees and wondering what they mean? Here's what we found out ...

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Question: My grandfather always painted the bottom couple of feet of his fruit trees (cherry, walnut, prune, etc.) with a white mixture. I think it was a lime/water mix. (I later heard that a white ...

Tree Trunk Goop used on a damaged young maple tree. Formula is equal parts natural diatomaceous earth, compost and soft rock phosphate mixed with water. Howard Garrett / Special Contributor Summer ...

Surat: Nature Club Surat (NCS) has raised concerns over the painting of tree trunks and said that painting trees will reduce the biodiversity of the city. NCS president Snehal Patel raised the issues ...

ENTER Ted Weiant’s backyard and first you may be impressed by the mini-garden of roses, the cactuses, the tropicals. But look a little harder and the landscape takes a turn for the quirky. A pretty ...

Answer: Have you ever noticed bark buckling off the tree trunk? I first noticed it in a mature mulberry tree in my yard in Las Cruces a few years ago. The bark on the west side of the trunk had ...