How to plant a tree: proper planting techniques ensure longevity and strength

Planting a tree involves more than just digging a hole and dropping it in. Proper techniques can help a tree grow stronger ...

How not to kill your tree

Incorrect pruning, particularly topping, is the surest way to ruin a tree. If it doesn’t kill the tree outright, it will ...
The Florida Times-Union

Garden Help: Seven common causes of tree death and how to avoid them

Our landscape trees rarely die of old age. Usually there is something we have done or failed to have done that shortens the lifespan of our landscape trees. Sometimes it is easy to forget that they ...
The Florida Times-Union

Garden Help: Yellow-bellied sapsucker may be damaging your tree

There have been many calls this month to the Duval County Extension Office describing a very unusual pattern of shallow pencil sized holes mysteriously appearing on the trunks of trees all over the ...