A: With vertical cracks in the bark along the trunk like that, I suspect those are frost cracks. These commonly happen in maples, which are thin-barked trees. Missouri Botanical Garden explains how ...

Q. Two years ago we planted two types of red maple, and they had done well. Now, on one tree, the bark is falling off the trunk but the other tree doesn't have this irregularity. Any ideas as to what ...

LARKSVILLE — When Bernie Okuniewski cooks up a vat of syrup, his main ingredient doesn’t begin with the sap flowing inside of a maple tree. When it comes to the sticky stuff, it’s what’s on the ...

There are plenty of places to get in on the sweet tradition of turning maple-tree sap into syrup in southeastern Wisconsin ...

Jeff Dahr, of Huron, S. D., carves a maple tree trunk to look like a mama bear and her cubs in the yard of Margo Bruderer's Omaha home on Wednesday. The tree was severely damaged in a hail storm last ...

Spring has sprung and gardeners are digging in. Got questions as you carry on? Get answers from Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU ...

What do maple syrup and rubber have in common? They are both made from tree sap (kind of like tree blood)! However, only maple syrup is an edible sweet treat. Maple syrup is a natural sweetener with ...