What shape is a tree? For most people, it’s like a lollipop or a feather duster: a single trunk topped by a green bunch of branches and leaves. “Not all trees are like that,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant ...

With trees, as with elephants and in swimming, trunks are important. They’re part of trees’ beauty, strength, majesty, and mystique. We have things to discuss. Like people, trunks come in all shapes ...

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After last week’s column on transplanting 8-year-old plum trees was published, City of Las Cruces Community Forester Jimmy Zabriskie contacted me about another important consideration: sunscald.

I can’t decide when to cut English ivy off my trees — spring or fall. I know it’s invasive and lately I see it everywhere, but I’m not looking forward to seeing brown ivy hanging on my tree trunks. It ...

Question: We have a lime and avocado tree. Do I clear the sod out from underneath the trees and, if so, how much to remove? Answer: Many gardeners may remember the spaces of clear soil under citrus ...

Most people are familiar with the notion that "tree rings" — the concentric bands visible on a cross-section of a tree's trunk — serve as an indicator of a tree's age. Researchers at the University of ...

Whatever allure trees might hold, they also have scads of data stored within their trunks. Daniel Griffin, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Minnesota, recently published “This ...

Do you have epicormic growth? Epicormic (epi = upon, kormos = tree trunk) growth is the technical term for shoots that develop from hidden buds on tree trunks and branches. Suckers, which grow out of ...

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 ...