My cherry tree has a problem. The bark is splitting and coming away. It has been looking fine with good foliage and flowers. What is the prognosis? Is there anything I can do? — Ed Bowne. I checked ...

Once leaves drop from trees, splitting, peeling, bleached or oozing bark may become more noticeable. The cause can range from normal bark development to environmental causes or disease.

Don't stress if you have a tree that's not looking its best in the bark department. You can save a tree with damaged bark by first assessing the type of damage. Once you know the severity, you have a ...

A reader recently asked why some of her apple trees had splitting bark. She wonders if the tree eventually will die. Splitting bark occurs because of many factors at any time. Cornell University has ...

But I talk about the "irregular," I want to mention a few of the "regular" landscape maintenance issues for this time of year. If you haven't put out a pre-emergent or a fall application of fertilizer ...

We have a Prairiefire crabapple tree that has severe splitting in almost all of the major branches. There is some evidence of old bark splits that have healed over that we did not notice until ...

We have a prairie fire crabapple tree that has very severe splitting in almost all of the major branches. There is some evidence of old bark splits that have healed over that we did not notice until ...

Tree wraps may be recommended for the trunk of young, thinned bark trees to prevent sunscald injury. However, there are few studies that show they help and some that show they may cause more harm.