https://lovelygardenroots.com/wood-ash-garden-how-much/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T22:30:00+00:00A Five-Gallon Pail of Fireplace Ash Is the Most a 1,000-Square-Foot Garden Should Get in a Year, UW-Madison Extension’s Kevin Schoessow Says https://lovelygardenroots.com/rock-salt-driveway-plant-damage/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T22:00:00+00:00Twelve Ounces of Rock Salt Is Enough for a 20-Foot Driveway, Illinois Extension’s Ken Johnson Says, and Shrubs Within 30 Feet Pay for the Extra https://lovelygardenroots.com/milwaukee-christmas-tree-sunn-spruce/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T21:30:00+00:00Joanne Sunn’s Uncle Showed Up With a Spruce 30 Years Ago and Told Her to Plant It. Now the 40-Foot Tree Is Milwaukee’s Christmas Tree. https://lovelygardenroots.com/missouri-invasive-plant-sales-ban-2027/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T21:00:00+00:00Missouri Garden Centers Have Until Jan. 1, 2027, to Stop Selling Japanese Honeysuckle, Wintercreeper and Two Other Invasive Plants https://lovelygardenroots.com/virginia-free-riparian-buffer-trees/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T20:30:00+00:00Virginia Will Plant a Forest Buffer Along a Stream, Pond or Ditch at No Cost to Homeowners and HOAs That Agree to Keep It Wooded for 15 Years https://lovelygardenroots.com/bells-seed-store-fayetteville-stewart-bell/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T20:00:00+00:00Bell’s Seed Store Has Sold Fayetteville Gardeners Their Seed Since 1919. After Stewart Bell Died at 64, His Sons Andrew and Hunter Are Keeping It Open. https://lovelygardenroots.com/pensacola-live-oak-removal-fee/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T19:30:00+00:00Taking Out a 43-Inch Live Oak Could Cost a Pensacola Homeowner $6,000 Under Tree Rules the City Council First Votes On Nov. 12 https://lovelygardenroots.com/southfield-gps-drivers-front-lawn/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T19:00:00+00:00GPS Apps Keep Sending Drivers Across James Campbell’s Southfield Front Lawn, and He Has Two Kids Under 5 at Home https://lovelygardenroots.com/mcfarland-front-yard-concrete-red-tag/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T18:30:00+00:00A McFarland Couple Spent About $15,000 on a Front-Yard Play Area for Their Daughter, Then a City Inspector Red-Tagged It Once the Concrete Was Dry https://lovelygardenroots.com/wichita-leaves-street-fine/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T18:00:00+00:00Blowing Leaves Into the Street Can Cost Wichita Homeowners $371.50, Because the City Treats It as Illegal Dumping https://lovelygardenroots.com/pennsylvania-lawn-fertilizer-law-december/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T17:30:00+00:00Pennsylvania Lawns Get a Half-Pound Nitrogen Limit From Dec. 15 to March 1, and No Fertilizer at All Once the Ground Freezes https://lovelygardenroots.com/neighbor-fence-feud-marigolds-hostas/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T17:00:00+00:00A New Homeowner Wouldn’t Pay for a Neighbor’s Fence He Didn’t Hit. Now Her Son Has Cut Down His Marigolds and Hostas. https://lovelygardenroots.com/aurora-lawn-watering-fines-sprinkler-ban/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T16:30:00+00:00Aurora Has Issued 606 Water Fines Since April, Totaling More Than $286,000, and Lawn Sprinklers Now Have to Stay Off Until April 30 https://lovelygardenroots.com/neighbor-cut-illinois-maple-trees/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T16:00:00+00:00‘Way More Than a Trimming’: A Neighbor Cut Into an Illinois Homeowner’s Maple Trees, and the Homeowner Says a Lawyer Is Coming https://lovelygardenroots.com/neighbor-cut-arborvitae-privacy-screen/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T15:30:00+00:00Half a Row of 27-Year-Old Arborvitae Was Gone When a Homeowner Got Home From Work. A Friend of the Neighbor Who Wanted a Fence Had Cut Them. https://lovelygardenroots.com/dc-lawn-fertilizer-ban-november-15/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T15:00:00+00:00D.C. Lawn Care Crews Must Stop Fertilizing on Nov. 15, and the City Is Asking Homeowners to Put Their Spreaders Away Too https://lovelygardenroots.com/swift-kelce-bratenahl-landscaping-approved/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T14:30:00+00:00‘This Is a Forest’: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Bratenahl Backyard Plan Won Unanimous Approval Over Neighbors’ Objections https://lovelygardenroots.com/fenn-church-alabama-power-judge-trees/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T14:00:00+00:00Alabama Power Cleared About 300 Yards of Trees on Fenn Church’s Land, Then a Judge Refused to Keep Him 300 Feet From the Crews https://lovelygardenroots.com/plano-senior-high-memorial-garden-petition/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T13:30:00+00:00Plano Senior High Removed the Memorial Garden Where Evan Johnson’s Family Planted a Tree, and 1,667 People Have Signed a Petition to Bring It Back https://lovelygardenroots.com/maryland-neighbor-pear-trees-herbicide/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-12T13:00:00+00:00A Maryland Homeowner Says the Neighbor Admitted Buying Chemicals to Kill Three Pear Trees on the Property Line, Then the Branches Facing His Yard Started Dying https://lovelygardenroots.com/holiday-wreath-yard-evergreens/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T22:30:00+00:00Iowa State’s Aaron Steil Builds Holiday Wreaths on a 16-Inch Frame From 4- to 8-Inch Bundles of Fir, Pine and Boxwood, and Says One Lasts 7 to 10 Days Indoors https://lovelygardenroots.com/fresh-cut-christmas-tree-water-care/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T22:00:00+00:00A Christmas Tree Stand Should Hold a Quart of Water for Every Inch of Trunk, Penn State Extension Says, After a Quarter-Inch Disk Is Cut From the Base https://lovelygardenroots.com/dont-prune-forsythia-azaleas-fall/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T21:30:00+00:00Pruning Forsythia and Azaleas in November Cuts Off Next Spring’s Flowers, N.C. Extension’s Shawn Banks Says, While Evergreen Hedges Can Wait Until After the First Frost https://lovelygardenroots.com/winterize-water-garden-pond-lilies/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T21:00:00+00:00Hardy Water Lilies Spend Winter on the Pond Bottom in at Least 20 Inches of Water, Virginia Cooperative Extension Says, While Tropical Lilies Need Water Above 50 Degrees https://lovelygardenroots.com/red-twig-dogwood-pruning-winter-color/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T20:30:00+00:00Red Twig Dogwood Stems Are Brightest on New Growth, So Illinois Extension Says to Cut Out Older Stems Every Other Year, or Take Overgrown Shrubs Down to 3 to 4 Inches https://lovelygardenroots.com/dte-tree-trimming-grosse-pointe-white-x/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T20:00:00+00:00DTE Crews Have Trimmed 56 of 80 Planned Miles in the Grosse Pointes and Detroit’s East Side, and Yard Trees Marked With a White X Are Coming Down https://lovelygardenroots.com/garden-plants-taken-rm20-note-pasir-mas/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T19:30:00+00:00Someone Cut 66 Young Plants From Ziana Roziana’s Malaysian Garden, Left RM20 and a Note Saying ‘2nd Time Here,’ Then Claimed Defamation When She Posted It https://lovelygardenroots.com/hereford-hospital-baby-memorial-garden/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T19:00:00+00:00Vandals Damaged the Water Feature and Plants in Hereford County Hospital’s Memorial Garden for Babies Who Died, 16 Months After It Opened https://lovelygardenroots.com/free-produce-stand-neighbor-garden/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T18:45:00+00:00Strangers From His Neighbor’s Free Produce Stand Kept Climbing Into His Garden for Tomatoes and Beans, So He Asked to Have the Stand Moved. The Answer Was No. https://lovelygardenroots.com/memorial-garden-baby-mabel-bolton/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T18:30:00+00:00Emma Moore’s Daughter Mabel Lived Two Days, and Because a Cemetery Felt Too Far Away, She Planted a Willow, Lilies and a Bench in Her Own Bolton Garden https://lovelygardenroots.com/pleasant-grove-unfinished-deck-contractor/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T18:00:00+00:00Ervin and Bridget Lewis Paid More Than $25,000 for a Pleasant Grove Backyard Deck, and the Unlicensed Contractor Left It Up to 12 Feet High With No Railings https://lovelygardenroots.com/bellwood-moms-memorial-garden/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T17:30:00+00:00Phyllis Duncan Has Tended Bellwood’s Moms Memorial Garden for 18 Years Since Her Son Was Killed, and It Now Holds More Than 70 Names https://lovelygardenroots.com/neighbor-30000-survey-fence-their-land/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T17:15:00+00:00A Couple Had Their Yard Surveyed Before Building a Fence. The Neighbor Who Fought It Spent $30,000 on His Own Surveys and Learned His Fence Was 2 Feet on Their Land. https://lovelygardenroots.com/spotted-lanternfly-belmont-massachusetts/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T17:00:00+00:00Spotted Lanternflies Have Reached Belmont, Massachusetts, Where a Gardener Found Two on the Virginia Creeper in Her Own Back Garden https://lovelygardenroots.com/eureka-old-town-monterey-pine-sidewalk/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T16:30:00+00:00Eureka Landlord Kelly Martin Cut Down Old Town’s Biggest Tree, a 60-Year-Old Monterey Pine, After City Notices Over the Sidewalk Its Roots Were Lifting https://lovelygardenroots.com/new-york-lawn-fertilizer-ban-december/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T16:15:00+00:00New York Homeowners Have Until Dec. 1 to Fertilize the Lawn, and Repeat Violators of the State’s Winter Ban Can Be Fined Up to $250 https://lovelygardenroots.com/indian-trail-fiber-yard-damage/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T16:00:00+00:00Four Different Fiber Companies Have Dug Up Mark Watkins’ Yard in Indian Trail, and the Town Has Had One Staffer Handling Complaints Full Time for Two Months https://lovelygardenroots.com/hulton-park-hedge-dispute-bolton/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T15:45:00+00:00Bolton Council Opened a High Hedge Investigation After Phil Lamey Said His Neighbor’s 10ft Evergreens Blocked His Hulton Park View. The Neighbor Wants Them at 15ft. https://lovelygardenroots.com/vermont-lawn-fertilizer-law-april/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T15:30:00+00:00Vermont Lawns Can’t Get Fertilizer Again Until April 1, and Knowingly Breaking the State Rule Can Cost Up to $500 per Violation https://lovelygardenroots.com/east-lansing-tree-removal-fine/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T15:15:00+00:00East Lansing Could Fine Brandon Green $149,400 for 26 Oak and Hickory Trees Cut Without a Permit, and the Council Takes It Up Again Nov. 17 https://lovelygardenroots.com/massachusetts-fence-viewers-property-line/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T15:00:00+00:00‘It Scared Our Son’: A Rutland Couple’s Two-Year Property Line Feud Shows Why Massachusetts Still Has Official Fence Viewers Under a Rule Dating to 1647 https://lovelygardenroots.com/marietta-lawn-died-weed-control-treatment/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-11T13:00:00+00:00Ann Meding’s Marietta Backyard Started Dying a Week After a Weed Control Treatment. Two Years Later, She Says the Company Never Fixed It.