In the back and side yards of St. Louis homes, usually in the city or the inner suburbs, clay planters that look like tree trunks sit there, doing their, um, clay tree trunk planter thing. Greg ...

Felling a tree is usually an expensive necessity that becomes even pricier when you have to remove the stump that the landscaper leaves behind. Instead of grinding it down, turn the stump into a focal ...

These tree stump ideas are sure to spark your imagination and help you make an eye-sore into your garden's crowning glory. From simple glow-ups to total transformations, there is no end to the ...

Would you like to dress up your tree with a garden around it? That’s fine — as long as it consists of compatible plants in the ground, and is not a raised planter. Raised planters are a common sight ...

Gardeners may be thinking of adding some color to the garden this spring by building a planter or raised planting bed around a tree. For the tree’s sake, don’t do it, says Doris Taylor, Plant Clinic ...

If you're a homeowner in the Twin Cities, there's a chance that you have an ugly stump in front of your house. Thanks to the emerald ash borer infestation, St. Paul and Minneapolis have had to cut ...

My grandmother used to collect the fallen branches and dead limbs of trees from her yard every other day or so. She put them in a collection bin. If we helped, we sometimes earned a little bit of ...