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 ...

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 ...

Visitors enjoy the Dongbu Village’s old hackberry tree in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, on July 29. (Yonhap) A 500-year-old protected tree in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, which recently ...

A single tree once stood guard over a hill in Arvada – a hackberry. For early settlers it was a landmark, its twisted trunk a seat for weary travelers. Legend whispers that a Native American chief was ...