Q: A couple of doors down from our home there is a large, round-headed shaped tree in the yard that has fairly large clusters of white blooms. Sort of shaped like a cluster of grapes. When we asked ...
I have received several inquiries from readers about the many roadside trees turning brown this summer. The question is usually, “What is killing all of those trees?” The trees in question are likely ...
The coming of autumn often makes trees harder to identify — but sometimes, it does the opposite. The black locust (Robinia ...
I’ve been keeping bees for almost 40 years now. Nothing big. Never more than 50 hives. One of the first things I wanted to learn about bees is what they made their honey from. I learned that I lived ...
A couple of years ago, I used this column to sing the praises of 10 especially tough and beautiful trees for the Midwest. My list included white pine, Kentucky coffee tree, Norway spruce, crabapple, ...
Q: Our neighbor next door allows locust trees to grow wild in his one-acre backyard. The trees on his property have borers that often cause significant decline. The seeds are always falling into our ...