Just like humans, trees should get regular "haircuts" to stay looking and feeling their best. For trees, this is called "pruning," and it's the process of selectively removing or trimming problematic ...

Spring is the worst time of year to prune your dogwood tree because you can negatively impact spring blooms. If you want to prune your dogwood trees, any other time of the year is perfect, depending ...

Have you ever witnessed trees being pruned by men with a truck, ladder, and a chainsaw? For everyone who needs a young tree pruned to produce a good structure (which is very important for live oaks) ...

Key Points You can prune evergreens year-round, but the winter offers distinct advantages.In winter, visibility is improved ...

I need to have one of my trees pruned. Is this a good time to have this done? Do you have any advice on choosing a company to do this? — Darnel Dobson Now is a great time to have trees pruned. In the ...

Recently, while chatting with an arborist friend of mine with decades of experience, he mentioned he saw a tree service working on trees around the townhouses where he lives, which had been contracted ...

Thinking about proper tree pruning reveals some interesting presuppositions on our part about what’s natural and what is not. It’s important to know some basics about pruning — in particular what not ...

The best time to prune is when the blade is sharp, or so the old saw goes. But in the case of oaks, it’s just not true. The only recommended time to prune oaks is in early to midwinter. The reason: ...

Recently I witnessed trees and palms (sorry, but I grew up in Iowa and palms are not trees, even though they do grow tall) being pruned by men with a truck, ladder and chainsaw. The tragic outcome ...