Have you ever noticed a tree with branches that are cut back to its trunk and wondered what it means? Here's what's behind this pruning practice.

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The top of the root ball isn’t an accurate guide for determining the planting depth for your new tree. Instead, locate the trunk flare — the place where the trunk widens at ground level.

Notching is a pruning technique that encourages plants to put out new growth, involving notches cut into the trunks of woody plants for more branches.

The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort to plant 1,000 thriving American chestnut trees that are a hybrid with the blight-resistant Chinese chestnut tree in the five boroughs.

Urrutia uses an increment borer to extract a core from the trunk to study the tree's age and growth history Image: Serdar Vardar/DW ...