Q: I purchased a piece of land last year with three silver birch trees on it. The largest is about 30 feet tall and had a low branch removed many years ago. The inside of the stub rotted and was ...

IT TOOK 40 years to grow and just 40 minutes to come down. Harcourt Arboretum arborist Guy Horwood shimmied up this silver birch with spikes on his feet to fell the tree last Wednesday. In its place ...

ANGRY homeowners can’t believe their street’s 80-year-old trees have been butchered. Residents living in Arcadian Gardens in Hadleigh, were aghast when tree surgeons hacked back more than three metres ...

Wall-grown peach and nectarine trees need to be protected from leaf curl, a disfiguring fungal disease. It's caused by the Taphrina deformans fungus, which is carried in rain and causes severe ...

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