If you’ve ever planted a young tree, you know how much care they need, especially when cold weather rolls in. Winter brings freezing temperatures, harsh winds, and sudden temperature swings that can ...

The worst threat to young trees and shrubs in winter isn’t cold or snow. “It’s bunnies and Bambi,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge specialist in the Plant Clinic at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle.

Young trees are considered those that are within five years old after planting. The trees typically have a slender, flexible trunk with a diameter of 1 to 4 inches and smooth, relatively tender, ...

Bracing for a mass cicada emergence in the next few weeks, tree experts and horticulturists from The Morton Arboretum provided a step-by-step demonstration Tuesday of how people can net their young or ...

To counter this threat, young trees must be highly adaptable—not just in form, but at the molecular level. At Membra, scientists are exploring whether young trees imprint environmental stress more ...

If you've started growing and taking care of pomegranate trees, you probably don't expect the topic of pruning to come up early in the tree's life. A lot of people don't touch their pomegranate trees ...

VIROQUA, Wis. (WKBT) -- Over the past few years, Viroqua has planted many young saplings along their boulevards and a Wisconsin DNR Urban Forestry grant is making sure those trees have a long life.