https://lovelygardenroots.com/west-philadelphia-willow-oak-permit/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-26T17:30:00+00:00A Retired West Philadelphia Copyeditor Stood Beside a Willow Oak Street Tree to Stop a Developer’s Crew That Had No Removal Permit https://lovelygardenroots.com/report-spongy-moth-egg-masses-michigan/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-26T17:00:00+00:00MSU Extension Wants Metro Detroit Homeowners to Report Spongy Moth Egg Masses on Their Trees Before the Leaf-Stripping Caterpillars Hatch https://lovelygardenroots.com/box-tree-moth-long-island/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-26T16:30:00+00:00Box Tree Moth Has Been Found on Long Island for the First Time, and New York Is Asking Nassau County Residents to Check Their Boxwoods for Webbing https://lovelygardenroots.com/east-harlem-memorial-garden-pantry/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-26T16:00:00+00:00Angela Maull Revived an East Harlem Garden in Memory of Her Late Daughter, and Its Kale, Collards and Tomatoes Now Feed a Monthly Food Pantry https://lovelygardenroots.com/east-ridge-native-garden-mowed/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-26T15:30:00+00:00East Ridge, Tennessee Mowed Down Chester Perry’s Three-Year Native Plant Garden and His Oak Tree After His Appeal Landed in the City’s Spam Folder https://lovelygardenroots.com/centerpoint-tree-trimming-cypress-homeowner/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-26T15:00:00+00:00CenterPoint Says It Trims About 1 Million Houston-Area Trees a Year After a Cypress Homeowner’s Lopsided Front-Yard Tree Drew 700 Comments https://lovelygardenroots.com/gretna-oak-removal-bill/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-26T14:30:00+00:00Gretna, Nebraska Cut Down a 100-Foot Oak Outside Bob Tomanek’s Home of 40 Years, and City Code Puts the $3,500 Removal Bill on Him https://lovelygardenroots.com/new-hampshire-spotted-lanternfly-funding/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-26T14:00:00+00:00New Hampshire Approved $24,620 in Federal Money to Fight Spotted Lanternflies After the State’s First Detection in Salem https://lovelygardenroots.com/san-jacinto-eucalyptus-tree-father/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-26T13:30:00+00:00A 20-Foot Piece of Eucalyptus Snapped in High Winds and Pinned a San Jacinto Father of Four in His Backyard, Breaking His Vertebrae and Ribs https://lovelygardenroots.com/alexandria-gas-leaf-blower-ban/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-26T13:00:00+00:00Alexandria, Virginia’s Ban on Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers Takes Effect Nov. 17 for Residents and Landscaping Crews Alike https://lovelygardenroots.com/kentucky-bradford-pear-bounty/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-26T12:30:00+00:00Kentucky Homeowners Can Cut Down a Bradford Pear and Trade a Photo of It for a Free Native Tree, With a Georgetown Bounty Event Set for Oct. 26 https://lovelygardenroots.com/broccoli-seed-recall-salmonella/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-26T12:00:00+00:00Gardeners Basics, Eden Brothers and Home Grown Broccoli Seeds Are Recalled in an FDA Salmonella Outbreak That Has Sickened 32 People in Six States https://lovelygardenroots.com/beech-leaf-disease-saddlers-woods/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-25T21:30:00+00:00More Than 200 American Beech Trees in New Jersey’s Old-Growth Saddler’s Woods Are Now Infected With Beech Leaf Disease https://lovelygardenroots.com/clear-creek-county-bear-attack/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-25T21:00:00+00:00A Clear Creek County Man Kicked a Charging Bear Near His Trash Cans at 1 a.m., Colorado’s 12th Reported Bear Attack of 2026 https://lovelygardenroots.com/charlotte-heritage-live-oaks-freedom-park/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-25T20:30:00+00:00Two 100-Year-Old Heritage Live Oaks Near Charlotte’s Freedom Park Are Slated to Fall for a Nearly 6,500-Square-Foot Home, and the Developer’s Penalty Is $1,500 and a Sapling https://lovelygardenroots.com/half-moon-bay-pumpkin-weigh-off-gienger/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-25T20:00:00+00:00Minnesota Grower Travis Gienger Won Half Moon Bay’s World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off for a Fifth Time With a 2,389-Pound Giant, Taking Home $21,501 https://lovelygardenroots.com/texas-contractor-30-years-theft/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-25T19:30:00+00:00A North Texas Contractor Got 30 Years in Prison After Taking More Than $300,000 From Clients, Including One Who Paid $180,000 Over the Phone https://lovelygardenroots.com/dedham-paving-contractor-sentenced/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-25T18:30:00+00:00A Dedham Paving Contractor Who Took More Than $15,000 From 11 Homeowners, Many of Them Seniors, Is Headed to Prison for at Least Five Years https://lovelygardenroots.com/port-isabel-fruit-fly-quarantine/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-25T18:00:00+00:00One Mated Fruit Fly Caught in a Backyard Mango Tree Put 19.19 Square Miles of Port Isabel, Texas Under a Federal Quarantine https://lovelygardenroots.com/worlds-heaviest-pumpkin-record/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-25T17:30:00+00:00A 60-Year-Old Rhode Island Grower’s 3,156-Pound Pumpkin Became the First Ever Over 3,000 Pounds, Breaking a World Record Set Just One Week Earlier https://lovelygardenroots.com/dr-power-trimmer-mower-recall/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-25T17:00:00+00:00DR Power Equipment Recalls Nearly 43,000 Pilot and Premier Trimmer Mowers After 19 Fires, Telling Owners to Stop Using Them Until a Free Repair https://lovelygardenroots.com/st-louis-gimblin-street-tree-death/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-25T16:30:00+00:00A 33-Year-Old St. Louis Man Was Killed When a Decaying Tree Fell on Gimblin Street, and a Neighbor and the City Now Disagree Over Who Should Have Cut It https://lovelygardenroots.com/denver-water-lawn-watering-ban/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-25T16:00:00+00:00Denver Water Has Banned All Lawn Watering Since Oct. 1, and Sprinklers Must Stay Off Into Spring 2027 Until the Board Sets New Terms https://lovelygardenroots.com/ohio-fall-burn-ban-leaves/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-25T15:30:00+00:00Ohio’s Fall Daytime Burn Ban on Leaves and Yard Waste Took Effect Oct. 1, Barring Open Burning From 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Through the End of November https://lovelygardenroots.com/hurricane-isaias-falling-trees-homes/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-25T15:00:00+00:00Falling Trees Crushed Homes in Birmingham and Escambia County, Killing Residents, as Hurricane Isaias Came Ashore Near Destin With 105 mph Winds https://lovelygardenroots.com/st-charles-county-fence-dispute-shooting/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-25T14:30:00+00:00A St. Charles County Woman, 60, Is Charged With Firing a Gun at Her Neighbor’s Husband as He Cut a Fence Post in a Property-Line Dispute https://lovelygardenroots.com/orlando-townhome-sinkhole-hoa-repairs/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-25T14:00:00+00:00A Deep Sinkhole Opened Beneath an Orlando Townhome, the City Condemned Two Homes, and the HOA Says the Repairs Fall on the Homeowners https://lovelygardenroots.com/mississippi-burn-bans-counties-fines/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-25T13:30:00+00:00Burn Bans Now Cover 55 Mississippi Counties, More Than Half the State, With Fines of $100 to $500 for Outdoor Burning https://lovelygardenroots.com/arkansas-burn-bans-drought/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-25T13:00:00+00:00Arkansas Now Has 51 Counties Under Burn Bans as a Historic Drought Leaves Craighead County Needing More Than 15 Inches of Rain to Recover https://lovelygardenroots.com/acworth-hoa-front-yard-garden-fines/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-25T12:00:00+00:00An Acworth, Georgia Family’s Front-Yard Tomato and Pepper Troughs Drew $25-a-Day HOA Fines Now Nearing $750, and the Board Pushed the Mother Out as Secretary https://lovelygardenroots.com/a-woman-left-her-in-laws-to-dog-sit-while-she-went-on-vacation-then-returned-to-find-her-roses-chopped-down-her-favorite-tree-reduced-to-a-stump-and-her-entire-garden-unrecognizable/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-24T20:20:00+00:00A Woman Left Her In-Laws to Dog-Sit While She Went on Vacation, Then Returned to Find Her Roses Chopped Down, Her Favorite Tree Reduced to a Stump, and Her Entire Garden Unrecognizable https://lovelygardenroots.com/homeowner-says-she-spent-a-year-transforming-her-yard-into-a-perennial-garden-then-realized-her-husband-needed-a-foolproof-watering-plan-before-she-could-leave-for-a-year/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-24T19:40:00+00:00Homeowner Says She Spent a Year Transforming Her Yard Into a Perennial Garden, Then Realized Her Husband Needed a Foolproof Watering Plan Before She Could Leave for a Year https://lovelygardenroots.com/homeowner-says-her-neighbors-chickens-keep-escaping-into-the-gap-beside-her-garden-fence-then-one-of-her-eight-dogs-chases-a-bird-and-turns-a-friendly-relationship-into-a-backyard-dilemma/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-24T19:00:00+00:00Homeowner Says Her Neighbor’s Chickens Keep Escaping Into the Gap Beside Her Garden Fence, Then One of Her Eight Dogs Chases a Bird and Turns a Friendly Relationship Into a Backyard Dilemma https://lovelygardenroots.com/homeowner-says-a-neighbors-tree-crashed-through-the-fence-and-onto-the-garage-overnight-then-discovered-that-owning-the-fallen-tree-was-the-least-of-their-problems/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-24T18:20:00+00:00Homeowner Says a Neighbor’s Tree Crashed Through the Fence and Onto the Garage Overnight, Then Discovered That Owning the Fallen Tree Was the Least of Their Problems