Avoid mounding the mulch up against the tree trunk. For young trees ... recourse for incorporating greenery around the tree ...

Trunk A tree's trunk is made of wood and is covered ... which in time become other plants. In some plants, fruit forms around the seeds - like this apple. Some seeds come in all sorts of sizes ...

This tree was discovered around 1880 near the ruins ... which peels off the trunk like sheets of paper. Its white needle-like flowers grow at the end of the branches. The fruits are shaped like ...