Should You Trim Trees in Fall or Wait Until Spring? Arborists Explain When It Helps—and When It Hurts

Should you trim trees in fall? Learn from certified arborists whether you should trim trees in the fall or wait until the ...
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Neil Sperry: Improper trimming likely cause of pecan tree decay

DEAR NEIL: After reading your helpful advice for a long while I now fear I need some personally. I had a relatively minor limb cut from my pecan tree less than one year ago. Now there seems to be a ...
Tyler Morning Telegraph

Sperry: Longtime reader seeks advice on pecan tree

When the wood inside a trunk is decaying, the bark separates from it. Since there is so much bark falling away from this pecan tree, there may be a large portion of this trunk that is being consumed ...
Tyler Morning Telegraph

Sperry: Think twice before getting rid of a pecan tree

Those fast-growing shade trees all have serious fatal flaws that make them messy, weak, ugly, and risky. Most of us wouldn’t put those words in our list of attributes when we went shopping for a new ...