Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who reports from Nashville on flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. Hackberries are native to Alabama, where I grew up, but I was a child ...

Q: The wind has caused a crack in a 4-inch branch on a hackberry tree that extends over our driveway. Can a limb like that be bound or screwed back together? A: Without a photo I’m not coming near ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The Springfield-Greene County Park Board says a landmark of Jordan Valley Park was lost to the severe storms that hit Springfield on Tuesday. The Horton Alexander Hackberry tree — ...

A reader has questions on native plants. Plus, the plant pick of the week. "As a member of the New Braunfels chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas, I want to respond to negative comments you've ...

An approximately 70 foot Hackberry tree in South Park was uprooted by storms on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. The tree was blocking New Hampshire Street south of 12th Street on Thursday morning. A few ...

cut down my tree – never, ever! My land had “no trespassing signs.” I attended a township meeting with my surveyor and pleaded that the township not cut my tree. I would expect any reasonable official ...

Winter must be here early, because white fluffy insects are snowing down on Mississippi right now. Actually, a bumper crop of ...

"As a member of the New Braunfels chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas, I want to respond to negative comments you've recently made about the native hackberry tree. Hackberry acts as a larval ...