Q. I just planted a fruit tree and was told by a friend that I should paint the trunk with white paint. I really don’t like the idea of a tree painted with white paint in my front yard. Is it really ...

The fake vs real Christmas tree debate has been simmering on for years. Traditionalists and romantics point to the festive smell and that sense of bringing the natural world into your home.

Workers are beginning the process of removing the famous Sycamore Gap tree trunk and crown from Hadrian's Wall, which was felled in late September in a shocking act of vandalism in northern England.