Mulching is one of the most beneficial things a homeowner can do to keep trees healthy. It makes growing situations more "friendly" for trees in general. But over-mulching can be one of the worst ...

Arbor Day is the last Friday in April in Indiana, a date strategically chosen to be right in the middle of one the best time periods all year to plant a tree in Indiana. Fall is also a good time. As ...

Purdue Landscape Report: It’s that wonderful time of year again where temps are rising, life is coming back into the landscape, and people are thinking about how to improve the urban canopy around ...

The smell of spring is in the air in Greater Columbus — not the smell of hyacinths or daffodils, but the smell of freshly applied hardwood mulch around trees and shrubs and other perennial plants.

but those big mulch volcanoes will kill your trees dead. Really ...? We’re having this conversation again? I thought we had covered this in sufficient detail last year, and the year before, and the ...

It’s the mulch wonderful time of the year! Mulchfest, the city’s annual Christmas tree “tree-cycling” program, is returning to Brooklyn on Dec. 26. From Dec. 26 to Jan. 7, Brooklynites are invited to ...

During our monthly Master Gardener meeting, I invited a fellow Master Gardener to drop by my home Friday morning to pick nectarines from my two trees. She arrived at our agreed-upon time of 9 a.m., as ...