https://lovelygardenroots.com/hydrilla-found-oregon-jackson-county/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T16:45:00+00:00Hydrilla, an Aquatic Weed That Grows at Least an Inch a Day, Has Turned Up in Private Jackson County Ponds in Oregon’s First Detection https://lovelygardenroots.com/charlotte-billboard-tree-permits-40-sites/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T16:30:00+00:00Adams Outdoor Cleared Hundreds of Trees Behind Plaza Midwood Shops for a Billboard Under a 2024 State Law, and 40 More Charlotte-Area Sites Have Permits https://lovelygardenroots.com/jacksonville-free-to-garden-bill/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T16:15:00+00:00Jacksonville’s Free to Garden Bill Would Let Community Gardens Skip Lengthy Zoning Approvals, and Growers Want 70 Market Days a Year Instead of 12 https://lovelygardenroots.com/marfa-pocket-gophers-cactus-garden/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T16:00:00+00:00Pocket Gophers Tunneled Toward Michael Hall’s Marfa Cactus Garden, and a State Biologist Bet Him a Nickel and a Quarter That More Would Come https://lovelygardenroots.com/phoenix-backyard-sinkhole-man-rescued/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T15:45:00+00:00A Phoenix Man Was Trapped in a 6-Foot Sinkhole That Opened in His Backyard, and a Pickup Truck Partly Sank Into It Too https://lovelygardenroots.com/hoa-weed-violation-common-areas/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T15:30:00+00:00An HOA Cited His Yard for Weeds He Couldn’t Find, So He Photographed the Community’s Own Overgrown Common Areas and Sent the Board a List https://lovelygardenroots.com/prairie-village-teen-lawn-equipment-stolen/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T15:15:00+00:00Thieves Took a Trailer, Five Mowers and About $20,000 in Gear From Prairie Village Teen Sonny Gallardo’s Lawn Business, Then a GoFundMe Raised More Than That https://lovelygardenroots.com/edmonds-dogwood-tree-supreme-court-rimmer/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T15:00:00+00:00Washington’s Supreme Court Will Hear Nathan Rimmer’s Fight With Edmonds Over the Two Replacement Trees the City Demanded for One Small Dogwood on His Lot https://lovelygardenroots.com/little-haiti-oak-forged-consent-letter/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T14:45:00+00:00Stefan Pizzi Says the Consent Letter With His Name on It Was Forged, and That Is How the 50-Foot Oak on His Little Haiti Property Line Came Down https://lovelygardenroots.com/grapevine-grass-height-native-plant-exemption/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T14:30:00+00:00Grapevine Now Caps Lawns at 6 Inches, but Yards Certified Under the City’s Free Native-Plant Program Are Exempt https://lovelygardenroots.com/san-antonio-water-main-yard-flooding/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T14:15:00+00:00Two Summers in a Row, Flooding Tied to San Antonio’s Water Main Project Has Swamped Southeast Side Yards, and the $8.9 Million Job Runs to 2027 https://lovelygardenroots.com/maine-christmas-tree-farm-drought-losses/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T14:00:00+00:00A Seventh-Generation Maine Tree Farmer Lost a Quarter of His Young Christmas Trees to This Year’s Drought https://lovelygardenroots.com/vermont-black-ash-seed-harvest/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T13:45:00+00:00Vermont Scientists Are Firing Ropes Into Black Ash Trees With a Slingshot to Save Seeds Before a Beetle Wipes Them Out https://lovelygardenroots.com/tree-crew-dumped-debris-trash-bins/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T13:30:00+00:00A Tree Service Crew Jumped a Homeowner’s Fence to Dump Debris in His Trash Bins. Then the Owner Claimed to Be a Police Officer. https://lovelygardenroots.com/neighbor-cameras-privacy-fence-california/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T13:15:00+00:00After a California Homeowner Put Up a 7.5-Foot Privacy Fence, the Neighbor Aimed Three or Four Cameras at It https://lovelygardenroots.com/pennsylvania-christmas-tree-april-freeze/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T13:00:00+00:00An April Freeze Thinned Out Douglas Firs at Pennsylvania Christmas Tree Farms, and One Grower Has No Trees Over 8 Feet This Year https://lovelygardenroots.com/neighbor-driving-over-lawn-camera-voyeurism/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T12:45:00+00:00Her Neighbor Keeps Driving Over Her Grass, and When She Put Up Cameras He Accused Her of Voyeurism https://lovelygardenroots.com/sussex-christmas-trees-died-frost-drought/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T12:30:00+00:00Every One of the 20,000 Christmas Trees an English Farm Couple Planted Two Years Ago Has Died After a Frost and a Drought https://lovelygardenroots.com/bauxite-backyard-fence-buckled-landscaper/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T12:15:00+00:00A Bauxite Woman Paid a Landscaping Company More Than $3,000 for a Backyard Fence, and Within Three Months the Boards Were Buckling https://lovelygardenroots.com/chicago-christmas-tree-clark-family-spruce/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-14T12:00:00+00:00The Spruce an Illinois Family Planted After a Grandfather Died in 2004 Will Light Up Chicago as Its Christmas Tree Nov. 20 https://lovelygardenroots.com/new-neighbor-ropes-off-trail-claims-path/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T16:45:00+00:00A New Neighbor Strung a Rope and a Sign Across the Trail Beside Her Rural Yard and Claimed the Path Was His https://lovelygardenroots.com/neighbors-cut-through-front-garden-gate/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T16:30:00+00:00Neighbors Kept Cutting Through a Renter’s Front Garden and Side Gate to Save About a Minute on the Walk to the Shops https://lovelygardenroots.com/robot-mower-pollinator-garden-neighbor/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T16:15:00+00:00His Neighbor’s $3,800 Robot Mower Kept Chewing Up His Pollinator Garden. After It Hit His $95 Edging, the Neighbor Asked Him to Pay for Repairs. https://lovelygardenroots.com/hoa-officer-photographs-florida-fence-mesh/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T16:00:00+00:00An HOA Security Officer Walked Through a Florida Homeowner’s Yard to Photograph the Mesh She Added to Her Fence for Her Dogs https://lovelygardenroots.com/nh-retirees-837-pound-pumpkin-large-marge/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T15:45:00+00:00Two New Hampshire Retirees, 79 and 86, Grew an 837-Pound Pumpkin Named ‘Large Marge’ With Help From a UNH Plant Breeder https://lovelygardenroots.com/neighbor-fights-backyard-drainage-plan/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T15:30:00+00:00A Neighbor Fought a Couple’s Backyard Drainage Plan at the Zoning Board. It Passed Unanimously, and Now He’s Threatening to Sue. https://lovelygardenroots.com/neighbor-code-enforcement-pink-flamingos/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T15:15:00+00:00His Neighbor Kept Calling Code Enforcement Over the Noise From His Landscaping Work. So He Put Out More Than 200 Pink Flamingos. https://lovelygardenroots.com/homeowner-buys-neighbors-leaves-one-dollar/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T15:00:00+00:00A Homeowner Paid Three Neighbors $1 Each for Their Leaves After the County’s Leaf Contractor Left Most of His Curb Pile Behind https://lovelygardenroots.com/freeland-farm-power-line-supreme-court/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T14:45:00+00:00Joanne Frederick Bought Back the Freeland Farm Where Her Grandfather Planted Walnut Trees. Now a Power Line Fight Over It Is at the Supreme Court. https://lovelygardenroots.com/lawton-childrens-memorial-garden-vandalism/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T14:30:00+00:00Vandals Destroyed Two Benches Families Placed for Their Children at Lawton’s Children’s Memorial Garden, Then Spray-Painted Four More https://lovelygardenroots.com/north-portland-redwood-vigil-tree-code/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T14:15:00+00:00‘You Can’t Replace This’: North Portland Neighbors Held a Candlelight Vigil for a Century-Old Redwood Set to Come Down for Six New Homes https://lovelygardenroots.com/providence-native-plant-yard-weeds-citation/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T14:00:00+00:00Providence Cited 71-Year-Old Lynne Bell’s Native Plant Yard for ‘Weeds’ After a Neighbor Said It Blocked the Sidewalk https://lovelygardenroots.com/oregon-neighbor-cut-arborvitae-brush-pile/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T13:45:00+00:00An Oregon Homeowner’s 65-Year-Old Neighbor Climbed the Fence and Cut Down 12 Arborvitae. Now He’s Complaining About Her Brush Pile. https://lovelygardenroots.com/hoa-crew-door-one-star-review/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T13:30:00+00:00Six People From the HOA and Its Landscaping Crew Showed Up at a Homeowner’s Door the Morning After a 1-Star Review https://lovelygardenroots.com/wildwood-heritage-live-oak-removal/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T13:15:00+00:00A 63.5-Inch Live Oak on Wildwood’s South Main Street Will Come Down for a Likely Car Wash, With $13,208 Going to the City Tree Fund https://lovelygardenroots.com/francestown-eversource-scenic-road-trees/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T13:00:00+00:00Eversource Tagged About 450 Trees Along Francestown’s Scenic Roads for Cutting or Trimming, and 168 Residents Have Signed a Petition https://lovelygardenroots.com/rockefeller-christmas-tree-decker-west-edmeston/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T12:45:00+00:00Rockefeller Center’s Head Gardener Spotted Rebecca Decker’s 76-Foot Spruce in West Edmeston About Six Years Ago. It Will Be Lit Dec. 2. https://lovelygardenroots.com/neighbor-landscapers-blew-leaves-11-bags/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T12:30:00+00:00Her Neighbor’s Landscapers Blew Leaves Into Her Yard Three Thursdays in a Row, So She Raked 11 Bags and Stacked Them on His Porch https://lovelygardenroots.com/hoa-fined-seven-homeowners-dues-1089/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T12:15:00+00:00An HOA Called Eight Homeowners Into Separate Hearings and Fined Seven of Them, While Quarterly Dues Climbed to $1,089 https://lovelygardenroots.com/pierce-township-greenbelt-trees-trial/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-13T12:00:00+00:00Pierce Township Neighbors Are Asking a Jury for $3.3 Million After About 250 Trees Were Cut From the Greenbelt That Shielded Their Homes 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