Waiting until the leaves drop in fall is a rule of thumb for pruning shade trees, mainly because you can see bare limbs better, and the job is less “messy” without leaves attached to the cut branches.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is reminding Minnesotans that not pruning or cutting oaks from April through July is the simplest way to curb the spread of oak wilt ...

Trees are famously anchored beings. They grow where they happen to be, their branches reaching ever closer to the sky as their roots keep them firmly in place. One particular tree — a live oak — was ...