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Know your trees. Do they like a lot of added water? Will new sprinklers help or hurt your trees.

A collage of various trees and the last image a leaf with caterpillars

by Duncan Slater PhD • 1st Arboriculturist, Lecturer, Researcher, Arbor Day UK Co-ordinator & Discoverer of Natural Bracing in Trees 

When one considers the many barriers to the survival of planted...

Tree Biomechanics Research Week 2022 shirt with logo

If you’ve never heard of Tree Biomechanics Week, it’s time you did.

Tree biomechanics incorporates biological study and engineering principles to understand how plant growth leads to the ability to w...

Ron taking selfie with other guy on radio show

On August 6, 2022, Arbor Doctor Ron Rothhaas joined yardboy Ron Wilson on 55KRC and iHeart Radio to discuss trees, weather, tree biomechanics, the Amish, and probably more. Click here to listen to the...

Collage of tree roots, tree, and tree bottom

Perhaps this tree should be called “The Table Oak”, as it stands on four “legs” – each a buttress root – with no central wood at all. It won’t stand forever, of course, but it’s been like this for at ...

Seasonal Worlds text within picture of trees and BBC logo

I came upon this show while helping my elderly mother the other night. After a while she asked, “do you really like this?” Surprised, I looked at her and replied, “Mother, this is what I do for a livi...

Tree with Kretzschmaria deusta

Recently I was called upon to inspect an apparently healthy American beech (Fagus grandifolia) tree. Outside of a few tightly bifurcated branch unions, the only real issue with this tree with a 43-inc...

red tree
The definition of fasciation in Merriam-Webster is a malformation of plant stems commonly manifested as enlargement and flattening as if several stems were fused…
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Multiple partners from Ohio Department of Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture-Division of Forestry, The Ohio State University, Cleveland Metroparks, and USDA – APHIS (Animal and Pla...
Brasswood Lace Bugs on leaf
This is the time of the season when the characteristic chlorotic leaf spot damage (= stippling) from Lace Bugs (order Hemiptera; family Tingidae) that feed on deciduous woody ornamentals as well as ...
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