The commonly planted Natchez crape myrtle is known for the cinnamon brown inner bark that is revealed when the outer bark ...

To start, and this is mostly a problem with live oaks, the base cause of the loose bark on their trunks is that the cambium (living/growing part of the tree just beneath the bark), was killed. In ...

MORE SPERRY: Fix common lawn and garden problems Q: We have a hybrid live oak that is now 40 years old. Last year we noticed that some of the bark is falling off the west side of the trunk.

Losing bark isn’t a good sign, though, on species that aren’t supposed to lose it. Some of the evils include frost cracks , small l ightning strikes , wounds from bad pruning or storm tear ...

Discard any torn bark and remove any loose bark surrounding the wound. Forest Keepers warns not to chisel into the wound, just around the edges. Keep an eye on the tree.

We have a problem with our lone Japanese Maple tree in our front flower bed. We think it has a fungus, and we're not really ...

Do not try to peel the bark back. The arborist may cut some of the loose bark away, but he or she will know how to do so properly to see what is going on behind it.

The arborist may cut some of the loose bark away, but he or she will know how to do so properly to see what is going on behind it. Hackberry seedling is hard to eliminate. Courtesy photo.

Some bats like to roost under sheets of loose bark on dying trees or stumps, especially in old-growth forest, and brown creepers often build their nests behind flaps of loose bark.