I have a small pin oak tree that is turning black for a few feet at the base of the trunk. The bark looks open, and yellow jackets and other insects are flying around it. Is this something that I can ...

The big snow split our old weeping Japanese maple (3-feet by 4-feet wide). The trunk cracked apart vertically about 2 inches wide and way down the middle. Should we tie it loosely around the stem so ...

Q: I have a maple tree at my summer home that has a large area of bark missing and the underlying wood is soft. The tree is alive, but I am concerned about the "open wound." This started about two ...