Lots of plants excelled themselves this year, but the wild spindle tree and its garden relatives did even better than most. Spindle is one of the few trees that gets its name from one of its ...

I know of only two people who have one. Yet this tree-type of Euonymus is well-suited to small urban lots (reaching no more than 10 feet high and 3 feet wide) and it copes well with our godawful ...

However, earlier this year, a tree came down in a storm, an old hawthorn, and I cut it up for firewood. I’m finding it hard to resist the temptation to plant something in its place, particularly as it ...