As spring approaches, many of us will reach for the pruners or contact a tree care company to have our shade trees pruned. Pruning can improve tree health, safety and ...

Dan Rawls knows trees. Having spent more than three decades making a living out of harvesting and maintaining them, he brings that experience to the company he founded in 2013, Precision Tree Service.

If a bad haircut was fatal, you would be very choosy about your hairstyle. But each year, hundreds of homeowners have their trees pruned by topping, a horticultural “bad haircut” that shortens the ...

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 ...

Q. Many times I have read, “Never top a tree!” I have also read that we should keep fruit trees at 8 feet for easy picking. And the avocado experts recommend keeping avocado trees at 11 feet. Either I ...