Colonial Williamsburg garden historian Wesley Greene strips the bark from a locust log with a draw knife. The log will be used as garden-bed edging in the town. Colonial Williamsburg garden historian ...

Q: A couple of doors down from our home there is a large, round-headed shaped tree in the yard that has fairly large clusters of white blooms. Sort of shaped like a cluster of grapes. When we asked ...

Q: This past spring, I had a honey locust tree cut down and the trunk ground up, hoping to grow grass in the space. However, during this hot, humid summer, hundreds of little trees have sprouted all ...

Q: Two years ago I had a locust tree cut down and the stump removed. Last year and this year there have been little locust trees growing all over my yard. Is there anything I can do to stop this ...

Josiah in Sarnia has a lovely heritage home. It was built more than a century ago by someone in the railroad business. The front of the house, with its big welcoming porch, was perfect for meeting and ...

I was planning to plant some black locust seedlings on our property, but I now understand it has some problems. Do you recommend this tree? I am very fond of the black locust tree (Robinia ...

University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. "Black locust tree shows promise for biomass potential." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 13 June 2013.

Plant breeders keep hoping for a big success. The tough Black Locust, Robinia pseudoacacia, has been crossed several times with the shrub-like Clammy Locust, Robinia viscosa. The tall and graceful ...

Here’s a question I asked myself, included here because I’ve noticed so many golden locust trees struggling this spring: Q: My golden locust tree (Robinia pseudocacia ‘Frisia’) has lots of dead ...

If plants were capable of expressing emotions similar to humans, area mesquite trees might literally turn green with envy and become jealous of another area leguminous tree species. This inhabitant of ...

As the strongest timber in North America, black locust helped build Jamestown and hardened the navy that decided the War of 1812, yet today few Americans have heard of it. The nation's taste in ...