Q.: My Japanese maple is about 20 years old now. The trunk is divided and I have thought of securing the two trunks together with something because of the extra weight of snow and ice in the winter.

The maple in the above photo is suffering from what we call winter cracking or frost cracking in trees. What happens during very cold weather is that the side of the tree that faces south in the sunny ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Periderm, also called bark, is an outer protective plant layer. Peeling bark is natural for certain species of tree, but in other ...