Problematic neighboring trees can prove to be an awkward garden dilemma. Whether they are casting shade, overhanging your property, or perhaps the thick, buttress roots are snaking under the fence and ...

Q. I’ve cut down a crape myrtle tree and now I now have them sprouting up all over the place. Do you have any ideas on how can I get rid of these? — Josephine Hargrave, Portsmouth Many trees and ...

Leaves, fruit, bark, twigs—you name it—are a hassle to clean up and remove when they fall from a tree. The last thing you want is for those to fall into your yard or onto your house from a tree that ...

Q: I’m hoping you can help us figure out what to do about these tree roots. We don’t know what kind of tree it is, but our neighbor’s tree is the same and the roots are showing above ground just like ...

Fences may make good neighbors, but not every privacy plant does. You know the plants – the blackberry or raspberry sending canes into your yard with leaves reaching over the fence, the lilac, that ...