Knowing how to save a young tree with damaged bark can help you give your new plantings a fair shot. Even though they're well-established, older trees sometimes need your help, too.

The small tree in your photo shows significant damage that appears to go all around the trunk, so you should plan on replacing that tree. There is nothing you can do to help it survive.

Can you tell me why the trunk of our weeping mulberry is splitting? It is 14 years old and has been moved twice. We treated it for fungus last summer. We are in zone 7a [on the U.S. Department of A… ...

The whitebark pine is a hardy tree that grows in an area stretching from British Columbia, Canada south to parts of California and east to Montana. It's a keystone species in its subalpine and ...