Kansas City Star

They need water but not too much: Here’s how to nurture a young tree during dry times

If you don’t water your young trees, this is the result. This dying tree needed to be watered weekly. Courtesy Johnson County Extension Consistent moisture is essential when establishing new plants, ...
AOL

Here's how you can protect young trees from rabbits and rodents during winter

Rabbits and rodents can cause injury to the thin bark and twigs of young trees. When snow covers food sources normally sought during winter, these animals often move into home lawns in search of food.

Itchy deer, hungry rabbits can threaten young trees, shrubs

Hardy trees and shrubs are naturally well armored against winter weather, but they have fewer defenses against animals.
Chicago Tribune

Plan ahead to protect young trees from cicadas

Chicago-area gardeners can look forward to a spectacular natural event this May, as periodical cicadas emerge for the first time in 17 years. The good news: Seventeen-year cicadas are harmless to ...
The Conversation

Trees ‘remember’ wetter times − never having known abundant rain could buffer today’s young forests against climate change

Alana Chin receives funding from Save the Redwoods League. Marcus Schaub receives funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape ...