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I have never seen painted trunks on this side of the Pacific. We have both sun and bugs. Wrapping with straw in the winter is big.

As a child looking out at the freshly painted smooth trunks of our trees, it was a weird sensation, a little unsettling, like looking at big bones sticking up out of the ground. :\:

I see on the web that one professor of plant and soil science also mentions painting as a protection against winter cold. Thick paint he recommends.

Growing up we had a number of large fruit trees in the back yard. Huge amount of peaches and plums every year, Grandma would put them up for the freezer, a delicious cold dessert in California. I had to rake the leaves. Dad always painted the trunks white, an annual activity. I seem to...