Correct pruning methods — like cutting several inches above diseased areas — can effectively remove diseased areas on the Yoshino cherry tree. Black knot, a disfiguring tumor-like fungus ...

A reader from Mohicanville contacted me around June 15 a few years ago to ask aboutthe deformed branches on her sour cherry tree. My reader’s tree had elongated, rough black swellings or knots that ...

The Kwanzan cherry, also known as the Japanese flowering tree, is native to Japan but commonly found in many parts of North America. It is popular for its double-pink flowers, which bloom in the ...

“Weeping cherry trees are a particularly striking addition ... deep cracks in the trunk, mushrooms or fungus growing on the tree’s wood or recent construction in the tree’s immediate ...

Morris said pruning a cherry tree for the first time is tricky but ... Last summer, the lupine ended up covered in rust fungus and I can see signs that it is still there on the new growth.

their recent susceptibility to fungus and other heat-wrought woes. She has taken on, though somewhat reluctantly, an unofficial role as one of the next generation’s ambassadors of cherry trees.