SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) – Spring is next month but experts said now is the perfect time to start landscaping your trees, but one common practice can do more harm than good. Experts say this time of ...

Tree topping – when the entire top of a tree is cut off – seems to have become a preferred method of tree pruning. Beauty is certainly in the eyes of the beholder, but is it good or bad for the tree?

(Scripps Howard)Surely you've noticed the sudden and drastic change in a tree's appearance in your neighborhood. One day it's a beautiful specimen in its natural form. An hour or so later, a chainsaw ...

Tree topping is an all too common practice among homeowners, particularly when their trees become too tall and pose a possible threat to the house or overhead power lines. Some have the trees topped ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry wants to offer homeowners looking to prune their trees a gentle reminder: Most minor, routine pruning (removing weak, diseased or dead limbs) can be accomplished at ...

In my last column I mentioned a “topped” street tree. I’d like to use this column to write more explicitly about the misguided practice of tree-“topping”, why it is so bad, and what the proper ...

Regular readers of this column know that it is not my style to preach or chastise individual gardening practices. However, after spending the long weekend traveling in the spacious luxury of Amtrak’s ...

We've all seen it happen: the fellow down the street gets his big tree trimmed and suddenly there is hardly anything left but the trunk and an ugly-looking top. The owner had the tree topped. Plant ...

Tree topping is usually done to improve a view or to stop trees growing into power lines. But the main concerns are not aesthetics, but tree health, public safety and costs to the homeowner. “Topping ...