Q: We recently moved into a house with a hawthorn tree in the front yard. The tree had beautiful red blooms in spring, but now it has developed unsightly black spots on the leaves. Is there a way to ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Trees are among the earth's most useful and beautiful products of nature.

The rare and endangered Harbison’s Hawthorn tree — thought only to exist as a single stalk in Nashville’s Percy Warner Park — has been discovered in Obion County, thanks to the efforts of dedicated ...