Privacy trees and hedges can add much-needed and beautiful separation from neighbors, busy streets, and less-than-ideal views. The best choices for privacy trees will ...

Editor’s note: This column was produced before Gene Wengert died in 2025. It is printed here in memoriam. Q. Why do we here in Virginia see so many eastern red cedar trees along fence lines? Do they ...

A healthy fruit tree is a magical thing. Besides providing a wealth of delicious food, a thriving tree creates shade and beauty and increases biodiversity in your yard. To keep fruit trees healthy and ...

Hi Bill, I wonder if you could give me some advice about the tree in my garden. It is an ash 30 – 40 feet in height. At the base of the tree, it seems to have grown around part of a metal fence when ...

A large tree blocks a Palo Alto street after a wind storm. Courtesy Carol Hubenthal. Welcome to our tree column, “Ask your local arborist.” Each month, arborists from the Davey Tree Expert Company in ...

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 ...