Frost cracks and other splits along the trunk of a tree have mystified arborists for years, says Bob Hauer, Iowa Extension consumer horticulture program assistant. The most common explanation is that ...

Q: Should we be concerned with the split in the trunk of the Frontyard Linden we purchased and had professionally planted in 2022, and the split appeared two years later? A garden center told us not ...

Q: We're looking for advice to help our young crabapple tree. Several winter storms and heavy snow weighed down a branch and caused a split down the main trunk. Is there anything that can be done? The ...

Q.: My Japanese maple is about 20 years old now. The trunk is divided and I have thought of securing the two trunks together with something because of the extra weight of snow and ice in the winter.

With trees, as with elephants and in swimming, trunks are important. They’re part of trees’ beauty, strength, majesty, and mystique. We have things to discuss. Like people, trunks come in all shapes ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The potential for more stormy weather is especially concerning for a family in Orange Mound as a tree is split and close to falling on a family’s house for the second time. The family ...