Hackberry emperor butterflies take flight at the entrance to the Roth Trailhead at the University of Kansas Field Station. A crowd slowed traffic one recent morning on a road north of Lawrence, but it ...

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 ...

If you’ve noticed tiny white specks floating through the air, or sticking to your car, clothes, or porch — you’re not alone.

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 ...

"As a member of the New Braunfels chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas, I want to respond to negative comments you've recently made about the native hackberry tree. Hackberry acts as a larval ...

cut down my tree – never, ever! My land had “no trespassing signs.” I attended a township meeting with my surveyor and pleaded that the township not cut my tree. I would expect any reasonable official ...

Tom Halstrom would walk his dog around his West Koenig Street neighborhood, “and all I would hear was chainsaws cutting up ...

Rebecca Koop pets her dog Zoe after taking a moment to assess damage to her raku kiln. Strong winds felled 45-foot-tall hackberry tree in the yard behind her pottery studio in the Scarritt Renaissance ...

A reader has questions on native plants. Plus, the plant pick of the week. "As a member of the New Braunfels chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas, I want to respond to negative comments you've ...