Jeff Dahr, of Huron, S. D., carves a maple tree trunk to look like a mama bear and her cubs in the yard of Margo Bruderer's Omaha home on Wednesday. The tree was severely damaged in a hail storm last ...

If the bark is peeled all the way around, it does not sound too hopeful that the tree will survive. A tree would have a hard time surviving if such damage went even half way around. This is a process ...

Q.: My Japanese maple is about 20 years old now. The trunk is divided and I have thought of securing the two trunks together with something because of the extra weight of snow and ice in the winter.

Q. Two years ago we planted two types of red maple, and they had done well. Now, on one tree, the bark is falling off the trunk but the other tree doesn't have this irregularity. Any ideas as to what ...

A: With vertical cracks in the bark along the trunk like that, I suspect those are frost cracks. These commonly happen in maples, which are thin-barked trees. Missouri Botanical Garden explains how ...

Aug 6, 2020 Aug 6, 2020 Updated Aug 6, 2020 0 Watch as a doomed tree is transformed into bear carvings. Jeff Dahr, of Huron, S. D., carves a maple tree trunk to look like a mama bear and her cubs in ...

Last summer, I learned that the beloved maple tree in our front yard had brittle cinder fungus and was rotting from the bottom up. Nearly the entire base had turned black, and, worse, the bark ...