During a particularly hot afternoon in June, my staff and I were walking a shaded trail at Garden in the Woods in Framingham ...

Even beer-drinking Babylonians knew that you can’t grow a good tree with bad roots. First, inspect the base of the trunk to make sure you can locate the root flair — where the trunk widens to ...

The Devil's Tree, with an open hole filled with apparent cement and several gashes along its trunk (Anthony Talcott) According to Muncy, these features stem from legends about the tree that ...

Even beer-drinking Babylonians knew that you can’t grow a good tree with bad roots. First, inspect the base of the trunk to make sure you can locate the root flair — where the trunk widens to ...

Make the hole as wide as you reasonably can. The tree roots will grow mostly out, not down. A hole twice as wide as the root ball is a good place to start. More is better.

Make the hole as wide as you reasonably can. The tree roots will grow mostly out, not down. A hole twice as wide as the root ball is a good place to start. More is better.

Make the hole as wide as you reasonably can. The tree roots will grow mostly out, not down. A hole twice as wide as the root ball is a good place to start. More is better.

Make the hole as wide as you reasonably can. The tree roots will grow mostly out, not down. A hole twice as wide as the root ball is a good place to start. More is better.

Make the hole as wide as you reasonably can. The tree roots will grow mostly out, not down. A hole twice as wide as the root ball is a good place to start. More is better.

Make the hole as wide as you reasonably can. The tree roots will grow mostly out, not down. A hole twice as wide as the root ball is a good place to start. More is better.

Make the hole as wide as you reasonably can. The tree roots will grow mostly out, not down. A hole twice as wide as the root ball is a good place to start. More is better.

Even beer-drinking Babylonians knew that you can’t grow a good tree with bad roots. First, inspect the base of the trunk to make sure you can locate the root flair — where the trunk widens to ...