A common fungal disease of cherry and plum trees is widespread in Greater Columbus, likely worsened by the abnormally wet conditions experienced locally both this spring and last spring. Black knot, ...

Editor’s note: How Does Your Garden Grow is a series the Gazette will feature again this growing season, provided by master gardener Ken Oles of Wrentham. He will discuss various backyard gardening ...

Q: I have a decorative tree called a sand cherry. I just noticed it has many places on the branches with raised black, deformed lumps. It is on almost every branch. Some of the branches are dead. This ...

A friend of mine, who is also a family therapist, recently explained to me the concept of a "nodal event." Within the Bowen Family Systems Theory, a nodal event is something in one's family history ...

Have you ever examined timber floorboards and pondered why they look the way they do? Perhaps you admired the super-fine grain, a stunning red hue or a swirling knot, and wondered how it came to be?

A Dorchester man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the theft of tree burls -- the giant knots on the trunks of most tree species prized by woodworkers for their intricate grain.Michael Scanlan ...

Black knot, a fungal disease, is affecting cherry and plum trees in the Greater Columbus area, likely due to recent wet weather. The disease causes hard, black knots on branches, disrupting growth and ...