Last week I talked about winter desiccation injury on evergreen trees and shrubs. Another type of winter injury is sunscald or southwest injury on the trunks of deciduous trees. Sunscald occurs when ...

Scorching temperatures occur every summer in Texas and can cause ugly scars on young smooth tree trunks. Sunscald is a physiological disorder that occurs on the lower part of the trunk on the ...

Young trees and species with thin bark are especially vulnerable to sunscald. Photo courtesy Getty Images. Welcome to our tree column, “Ask your local arborist.” Each month, arborists from the Davey ...

Dear Neil: I planted 21 trees two years ago, and they appear to have sunscald. What can I do about this? A: Sunscald in trees is almost exactly like sunburn in humans. It's far better to prevent it ...

Many young, smooth, thin-barked trees such as honey locusts, fruit trees, ashes, oaks, maples, lindens and willows are susceptible to sunscald and bark cracks. Sunscald normally develops on the south ...

I always look forward to spring when the trees and flowers start to bud out. I love all the color and light spring brings. So when I see dead or failing trees, I am always sad especially when they are ...

As we head into the winter months, and before we snuggle in for the winter, let's take one last look at our young trees and wrap them up, too. Sunscald, also known as sunburn or frost canker, is a ...

I have received two phone calls in the last month asking about damage to bark on trees planted within the last two years. Both situations have similar characteristics, so I thought this might be a ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Winter weather has arrived and young trees need a little TLC to avoid a common malady called sunscald.

Q: We purchased a home with four white and pink flowering crabapple trees, and one of the trees is struggling. Less than half the tree shows growth. Should we cut out the dead branches and hope the ...

Dear Neil: I've attached several photos of our Chinese pistachio trees. We planted two of these 5 years ago. The first one ended up with borers, and it has cosmetic damage to half of its trunk.