In the back and side yards of St. Louis homes, usually in the city or the inner suburbs, clay planters that look like tree trunks sit there, doing their, um, clay tree trunk planter thing. Greg ...

Would you like to dress up your tree with a garden around it? That’s fine — as long as it consists of compatible plants in the ground, and is not a raised planter. Raised planters are a common sight ...

Gardeners may be thinking of adding some color to the garden this spring by building a planter or raised planting bed around a tree. For the tree’s sake, don’t do it, says Doris Taylor, Plant Clinic ...