Dear Neal: We have a 4-year-old Drake elm that had a large growth spurt last year with the rain. Now, it has had two branches that have split vertically where the limbs separate. Is the new growth not ...

Q. In April, we planted a 12-foot `Drake' elm tree (purchased from a local nursery) in a newly built bed. Evidently, we overwatered the tree, because all the leaves turned yellow and fell off. We quit ...

Whenever I mention cultivating elms in Florida, someone brings up Dutch elm disease. Luckily, that fatal fungal malady — thought to have originated in Asia before spreading to Europe and North America ...