What your friend was most likely referring to was painting the tree with a 1:1 mixture of water and water-based indoor latex paint. This is what I use to paint the tree trunk and branches.

Tree sections are stacked floor to ceiling. They're like rounds chopped from a carrot, the carrot being a tree trunk. They're the size of dinner plates.

Purdue Landscape Report: Slime flux (also known as wet wood) is a dark, foul-smelling and unsightly seepage of sap from tree trunks (fig. 1).The disease is not usually a serious problem but the ...

Instead of the normal spray rate of 2 ounces of orange oil, use 4 ounces of orange oil per gallon of water and paint or spray it on the infested trunks, not on the foliage.

If a tree’s trunk sits partially on your land and partially on your neighbor’s land, ownership is shared. In this third case, you can trim up to the property line but you can’t destroy or ...

Watch as precision wood cutting takes center stage, revealing the mysteries hidden within an old tree trunk. Expert craftsmen demonstrate their incredible skills as they carefully slice through ...

Sapsucker damage can kill tree limbs or entire tree trunks. We should always try to keep all our trees healthy, especially those with any types of physical wounds or diseases.

Normal mulching around the root area, as described in #4 above, is a good idea and will also discourage over-zealous mowers or string trimmer operators from getting too close and damaging the base of ...

Want to get quickly into the tree canopy? This modular set of stairs can be quickly and easily wrapped around any tree, without doing damage to the trunk.

Come on, let’s use this tree trunk. Neighbors will love it so, and a driver will never know, that it can destroy their truck! When a driver decided to destroy a giant snowman in Petersburg, Ky ...

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.

A bog oak floor. SEIER+SEIER. A 44-foot-long piece of a 5,000 year old tree trunk was uncovered on September 25 in the U.K. The BBC reports that it was unearthed from a bog in Norfolk.. After ...