That painted tree with a white trunk has a secret meaning. Find out why gardeners and farmers do it, and how it helps protect the tree from harm.

Painting the trunk with a 1:1 mix of white latex paint and water helps reflect sunlight and keeps the bark temperature stable. It's like giving your tree its own SPF 50.

If tree trunk protection is needed against sunscald on thin-barked trees such as ash, birch, linden, red oak or maple, there is a much better way to go. Painting or white-washing trunks is much ...

As the trees mature, they become more resistant to sunscald, the result of thickening bark. But in the interim, people protect trees by painting them white at the base.

Two trees with green trunks deserve mention. One is palo verde (Parkinsonian spp.), which means “green stick” in Spanish and references its green photosynthesizing bark.

His goal is to provide answers that suit the specific lifestyle wherever someone lives in Arizona. This citrus tree has been painted with a natural bark-colored paint. Rosie on the House ...

That painted tree with a white trunk has a secret meaning. Find out why gardeners and farmers do it, and how it helps protect the tree from harm.