Homeowners who are looking for ways to promote healthy, growing trees in their yard are well-advised to remember this axiom: A ring is a tree’s best friend. Kansas State University horticulture expert ...

The smell of spring is in the air in Greater Columbus — not the smell of hyacinths or daffodils, but the smell of freshly applied hardwood mulch around trees and shrubs and other perennial plants.

OMAHA, Neb. — Scott Evans calls them mulch volcanoes. Evans, horticulture program coordinator for the Nebraska Extension in Douglas-Sarpy Counties, finds it difficult not to pull out his trowel to ...

If your tree is already turning its leaves for the fall, it's probably not the seasons, it's stress. The first day of fall isn't until Sept. 22, but some trees are already starting to show off their ...

Really ...? We’re having this conversation again? I thought we had covered this in sufficient detail last year, and the year before, and the year before that. Well ...