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 ...

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

Lacewings and ladybugs are predators to Asian woolly hackberry aphids. MSU says the most common method of dealing with aphids ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

Apartment walls are like massive earplugs that swallow the city’s noise, and number keys appear as small gateways filtering the world’s secrets. Though a convenient space, the silence approaches like ...