Chicago Tribune

Trees can be surrounded by flowers, mulch in your garden — but not raised planters. Here’s why.

Would you like to dress up your tree with a garden around it? That’s fine — as long as it consists of compatible plants in the ground, and is not a raised planter. Raised planters are a common sight ...
Chicago Tribune

Small sprouts around tree trunks, known as suckers, can be a sign of stress. Here’s what to do.

When we think of a tree, we usually picture a single big trunk that divides into branches overhead. Yet sometimes trees may sprout small stems sprouting from the base of the trunk, down by the roots.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

#stlstuff: It's a tree trunk, it's a planter...it's a work of art

In the back and side yards of St. Louis homes, usually in the city or the inner suburbs, clay planters that look like tree trunks sit there, doing their, um, clay tree trunk planter thing. Greg ...
TreeHugger

How to Transplant a Tree

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. Do you have an "oops" tree in your yard? An oops ...