There’s some big machines in your yard waking up. They’re your trees! It’s amazing to follow what goes on inside trees as they wake up and they don’t make any noise. I asked Dennis Swartzell of ...

As trees grow and reach heights which many consider to be unsafe, tree owners would often top their trees by reducing the tree size. This is by heading back most of the large, live branches from the ...

Tree topping is the practice of removing an entire top portion of a tree, including parts of the trunk, leader branches, as well as small branches. It is a practice going back a hundred years or more, ...

If someone suggests you "top" a tree to improve its safety, say "no" loudly. According to tree experts, "topping" (reducing the height of a tree by cutting off the tops of the branches) is a good way ...

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 ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) – Spring is next month but experts said now is the perfect time to start landscaping your trees, but one common practice can do more harm than good. Experts say this time of ...