I t's common to see leaves change color before falling away as autumn turns to winter in temperate regions, but if you find barren trees with branches chopped all the way to the trunk, this is ...

Arts & Entertainment. This is what happens to trees when they're struck by lightning If lightning strikes deep into the trunk, the entire tree may blow apart, or all the bark will blow off.

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A tree that will grow to be more than 40 feet tall should have a single trunk well up into its canopy, but the trunk does not have to be arrow-straight.

In younger trees, codominant stems can be resolved by structural pruning to develop a single trunk. Developing a single trunk with one dominant leader starts by identifying the stem that will make ...

If one branch breaks, the others are more likely to fail. Cavities, large decay pockets, and other evidence of decay: If you find cavities or decay where branches meet or at the base of the trunk ...

Spencer Platt / Staff / Getty Images. All trees lose some branches during their lifetime and the wounds from these branch stubs usually heal. But when they heal too slowly or not at all, the tree ...

Where trees have a trunk diameter greater than 12 inches (at this height), it is likely that with selective pruning of the most damaged parts of the tree, full recovery can be expected.

It's irrefutable that trees add value to your property. These majestic sentinels improve your property's aesthetics, reduce stormwater runoff bills, better regulate temperatures and air quality ...

In a 12-inch-diameter branch, that might not leave much space for sound, supporting wood around the hive. Cavities and internal decay do not necessarily mean that a tree is about to collapse.

Gardening columnist Don Kinzler offers advice on telling whether perennial flowers, deciduous shrubs, evergreens, trees, lawns and more are dead or simply growing slowly due to the late spring. 3 ...

Movement in a trees roots is a warning sign. Pat Anderson Photo/Shutterstock #2. Look up. If large, dead branches are attached to the trunk, that’s dangerous.