Tree Experts Share Tips for Healthy Backyard Trees
Walk any older neighborhood and you can read the story of its trees without asking a question. The yard where a sugar maple flares at the base like a bell? Someone buried the root collar under years of mulch and soil, and the tree learned to breathe through a straw. The sprawling oak with a sunken patch at the trunk? Likely a mower scar that never healed, then rot crept in. A purple-leaf plum that exploded into bloom in April and looked tired by August? Drought stress and a