1.   Below that temperature, the plant will suffer dieback in its branch tips, because they are thinner and more exposed to the cold.

2.   Hang them along one graceful limb from trunk to branch tip to enhance the beauty of your old oak.

3.   In late September, multitudes of grayish-white buds start to swell at every branch tip.

4.   It appears the redtips, in an effort to reach the sunlight, have grown long, spindly branches with few leaves except at the branch tips.

5.   Q. The lawn under my oak tree is littered with hundreds of branch tips that squirrels have chewed off.

6.   Snap, rather than cut, cuttings from branch tips now.

7.   Symptoms are abnormal clusters of new shoots appearing just below the branch tips.

8.   The males sang while the females deposited eggs in slits they made in the branch tips, where the wood was fresh and soft to cut into.

9.   This kills the branch tips.

10.   Using your thumb and forefinger, pinch off the youngest foliage at the branch tips.