California almond growers have been plagued by canker diseases that have caused yield and tree losses for years. Yet some mysteries remain about what causes them and how to diagnose the problem. Those ...

You may not readily see it, but healthy spurs on this year’s almond trees set the table for optimizing yields next year. And it could be a mistake to weigh in with a heavy hand when it comes to ...

An unsatisfactory approach to tree maintenance or pruning is “topping” it. Topping is the indiscriminant removal of branches of a tree above an arbitrary height, leaving unnatural, grotesque stubs and ...

Like all good things, trees need to be nurtured and maintained. And for many Southern Californians, a not uncommon sight of maintenance we've seen takes the dramatic form of trees having their ...

(Scripps Howard)Surely you've noticed the sudden and drastic change in a tree's appearance in your neighborhood. One day it's a beautiful specimen in its natural form. An hour or so later, a chainsaw ...