If they must be pruned in summer, avoid rainy or humid weather conditions. Prune apple trees, including flowering crabapples, mountain ash, hawthorns and shrub cotoneasters in late winter ...

The mountain ash can be found growing wild around the ... and you’ve added compost prior to planting. It’s best to prune while the tree is dormant from late fall to early spring.

To create a trap tree, an ash tree is girdled (the bark peeled off all the way ... An alternative to the drawknife is a pruning saw or other tool to make two parallel cuts 8- to 10-inches apart. Then ...

Care for the mountain ash tree by watering, fertilizing, and pruning to ensure its health and longevity. As spring approaches ...

By Amy-Lynn Albertson N.C. Cooperative Extension Many people believe my job slows down during winter, thinking I have a “break.” In reality, winter can serve as a precursor to what is to come in ...

Landscape trees need proper care and management throughout their lives, and one of the most important tree management practices is pruning. When done properly, pruning can improve the health and ...

The answer, more likely than not, is that the tree in question was improperly pruned. Where pruning cuts in a tree are improperly made, these cuts cannot properly heal and present an open ...

Urban Forestry Specialist Lindsey Purcell‘s helpful publication “Tree Pruning Essentials” is now available in a Spanish-language version, “Lo Esencial Para la Poda de Árboles.” This publication ...