Lily asks: A friend of mine says she is going to build a wattle fence around a small vegetable garden. Rather than appear unworldly, I didn't ask her for a description of this wattle fence. What is a ...

Nice to look at and surprisingly sturdy, wattle nowadays can be seen in fences, arbors, trellises. Faegre presses a willow branch down after weaving it through sticks planted in the ground while ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. While vacationing recently on the Maine coast, I admired many nice gardens. Many of them had hedges or fences, more than I am used to seeing in rural ...