Q: Our mugo pine tree is heavily weighed down by the recent snow. Should we knock the snow off the branches, or leave it alone? Will it be misshapen after this? A: Heavy snow and ice can cause damage ...

To help smaller trees and shrubs, you can wrap or tie them together in the fall, before the first snow. It can help reduce the weight of the snow or ice. Adele L. Wilcoxen Kansas State University ...

Shoveling in single-digit temperatures after the colossal winter storm this weekend, I dumped mounds of snow onto my garden beds, knowing it would protect my trees, shrubs and dormant perennials. When ...

A heavy snowfall can turn your prettiest evergreen into a bent, split, stressed-out mess overnight. One storm is all it takes for branches to splay, tops to snap, and shrubs to never look the same ...

What did the tree do when it went on sabbatical? It took a leaf of absence, of course. Tree humor is fun, but what’s happened to trees this winter is certainly no laughing matter. Wet heavy snow, ...

In the gray of winter, we’ll be grateful for the color of our evergreen trees and shrubs. “It’s cheery to see those touches of green from plants that don’t go entirely dormant,” said Sharon Yiesla, ...

Once upon a time when the central-Pennsylvania landscape was routinely snow-covered all winter long, about the only thing green sticking out above the sea of white were evergreen shrubs and trees. But ...

Sooner or later, there will be a big snow. When heavy snow is caught in the needles of evergreen shrubs, it can sometimes bend their branches alarmingly. Usually, the alarm is unnecessary. “Most ...