JEFFERSON CITY — Plant and tree nurseries in Missouri soon will be prohibited from selling a handful of fast-spreading ...

Stare at a big, bushy tree for a few minutes, and you’ll notice there’s a lot going on. Up in the leaves there’s a bustling community of squirrels, songbirds, beetles and butterflies. Hidden among the ...

While the ornamental crabapple tree is a common landscaping choice for homeowners, with beautiful blooms in the spring, it is not unusual for trees to fall prey to an array of diseases and pests ...

Most crabapple trees hold their fruit well into the winter months providing a food source for birds, adding another excellent reason for including it in the landscape.

A strange orange or red fungus, called cedar apple rust, is showing up on cedar and apple trees in the Midwest.

We have a pink flowering crabapple tree that is about 20 years old. For the last several years, after it blooms, it acts like it is fall and the leaves drop off. It seems to come back okay every ...

Many crabapple trees have branches with leaves turning brown, yellow and reddish, or even orange. There are a number of issues with crabapple trees now.

A strange orange or red fungus, called cedar apple rust, is showing up on cedar and apple trees in the Midwest.

Q. Is there a way to keep sweetgum and crabapple trees from bearing fruit and creating so much debris for me to clean up? -- R. L. in Spokane Answered by Mark Bernskoetter, Master Gardener of ...