Waiting until the leaves drop in fall is a rule of thumb for pruning shade trees, mainly because you can see bare limbs better, and the job is less “messy” without leaves attached to the cut branches.

Texas forest officials are trying to stop residents from pruning their trees in the new year to guard against a deadly tree disease known as oak wilt. Winter is typically the best time to trim trees, ...

Oak wilt, a destructive disease affecting oak trees in Missouri, can kill a tree in just weeks, experts say. Robbie Doerhoff, a Forest Health expert for the Mis ...

The Mediterranean oak borer, a miniscule beetle no bigger than a sesame seed, has been discovered in trees around the Portland area. The invasive pest native to Europe, the Middle East and North ...

A rotting oak tree toppled Saturday night on Raleigh's Lead Mine Road near Lynn Road, damaging power lines and knocking out power to about 1,700 customers in about a 2-mile area, authorities said. A ...

Q: I have a house in Houston. Does blooming of tropical trees like Bauhinia, Erythrina and Tabebuia depend on their age or size? I plant these trees in the ground. They freeze. They come back but they ...

When Murrells Inlet residents learned of plans to remove a beloved 200-year-old live oak tree, they used social media to rally others to their cause and save the tree. The South Carolina Department of ...