Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is now embarking on a project to paint the city’s trees in order to beautify locations of importance. The Secunderabad Zone of GHMC has invited separate ...

Q: My dad helped me plant a couple of young apple trees in my backyard last weekend and so far, so good. After we finished I said the only thing I had left to do was paint the trunks white. He looked ...

Raipur: The Chhattisgarh govt’s housing and environment department has issued an order to all departments in the govt secretariat and to all district collectors, instructing them to ensure no tree ...

Raipur: In a recent directive, the Chhattisgarh Government’s Housing and Environment Department has prohibited the painting of tree trunks across the state, citing environmental concerns. The order ...

Surat: Nature Club Surat (NCS) has raised concerns over the painting of tree trunks and said that painting trees will reduce the biodiversity of the city. NCS president Snehal Patel raised the issues ...

Whether you’re walking along a city sidewalk or hiking deep in the forest, you might occasionally notice paint marks on tree trunks (or even a metal band once in a while). Those paint marks are codes ...

Passing under the shade of trees on a hot sunny day, you might have sometimes wondered why the base of these trees are painted in white and red. So, the answer to your query is that the paint practice ...

Question: My grandfather always painted the bottom couple of feet of his fruit trees (cherry, walnut, prune, etc.) with a white mixture. I think it was a lime/water mix. (I later heard that a white ...

Paint marks on a tree aren't always random. Here are what the different colors may mean and why it is important to know what they are.