Pruning apple trees has many benefits. It can prevent damaged tree limbs from harming other branches and increase airflow ...

Pruning an apple tree can seem like a daunting task if you have never done it before. Like most other skills, you start out slowly learning the basics to help build confidence.

Trees are pruned for many reasons. Often they are practical reasons of how they impact on our lives, such as to ensure a tree ...

Winter pruning is a deceptively simple concept: while an apple tree is dormant, a gardener prunes her trees by cutting off, or heading, some of a branch’s recent growth.

But, in “Blooming Apple Tree” (1912), all the lines are the same thickness. The scaling is gone, and with it, the tree. Before reading the title, most viewers would not guess that this is a ...

The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie our ability to recognize artworks as depictions of trees.