Dear Neil: I read your column in Central Texas. My house was built in 2017 and I bought it in 2021. I had two beautiful elm trees in my front yard. One died suddenly earlier this year. I had it ...

When I was a younger horticulturist, most developers were planting cheap trees with their new homes. That was “cheap” as in inexpensive, but it was also “cheap” as in “next-to-worthless.” Worst of the ...