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 ...

Trees planted in lawns can benefit from a mulched ring to reduce competition with grass roots and keep mowers and weed whips from damaging trunks. If the tree is small, mulch out to the drip line of ...

Purdue Landscape Report: It’s that wonderful time of year again where temps are rising, life is coming back into the landscape, and people are thinking about how to improve the urban canopy around ...

Each year, those with a green thumb spread out mulch to protect their gardens, plants and trees. Mulch has lots of benefits for plants including keeping them warm, protecting moisture and preventing ...

Don’t beat the lower trunk area of a tree with the lawn mower or string trimmer. Nothing will kill a tree quicker than severing the cambium or growth layer. The cambium layer is the vascular system of ...

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 ...