Follow these steps to prepare your yard for new landscaping after cutting down a tree. Tree removal can be a messy process that leaves scattered twigs and wood chips. Cleaning the debris is the first ...

Many plantings on her property have special connections to family and friends. “You get a reputation as someone who is interested in gardens, so people think of you when something needs to be divided, ...

If you have shady space that you aren't sure what to do with, a stumpery could be the beautiful solution you need to add ...

If you were to visit Paula at her home in Dallas and spend some time with her roses and statues, the patch of perennials, the ...

Usually we think of shade as the kiss of death for a flower garden. This isn't really true. Here are quite a few options for blooming plants that are often forgotten just because they are sun-lovers.

Escape to the Country presenter Nicki Chapman has been hosting coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show on the BBC – but it seems her own garden, which she calls her 'sanctuary' gives the RHS annual ...

Certain fast-growing, once-popular species of coniferous trees and hedges such as Leyland cypress (× Cuprocyparis leylandii) are renowned for quickly becoming too large for the average-sized garden.

A man has been fined for chopping down a tree in his garden worth more than £114,000 after claiming a falling branch narrowly missed his daughter. Carl Bellis, of Sandfield Close, appeared at ...

This would probably be illegal and might well kill whatever was living on the rotting tree stump, though. Better to have decomposing wood in a garden. If you have a dying tree, let it die.

Comments Zahra Khaliq and Alex Evans 09:21, 07 Feb 2025 Stump of old birch tree on the lawn in the garden (Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto) ...

News Zahra Khaliq News Reporter and Alex Evans 21:57, 06 Feb 2025 Anyone who has a tree stump in their garden should leave it alone, experts say (Image: (Image: Getty)) ...

Gardeners who have a tree stump rotting in their garden have been issued an urgent warning not to touch it or remove it. At this time of year especially, gardens begin to fill with mess.