CONTRADA PETRARO, Sicily — They come in the middle of the night and are gone by morning. But without fail, they leave their calling cards: Pronged footprints and gashes in the ground where they've dug ...

Learn how to make an old English-style wattle fence, the perfect accent for any garden. Learn how to make an old English-style wattle fence with Shelley Ryan and Susan Churchill. It's the perfect ...

Planning ahead for spring, on a frigid day in January, an Annapolis resident pruned a crepe myrtle tree. Afterward, he was left with a pile of slender, pliable branches ranging in length from three to ...

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 ...

A gardener presses a willow branch down after weaving it through sticks planted in the ground. Joel Wintermantle Chicago Tribune Back when everything came from the land, fences were made from what you ...

Gardeners often end up with a pile of brush after summer (or winter) pruning and then haul it away to the clean-green dump, cut it up in pieces no longer than 4 feet for neighborhood yard-waste ...

The wattle fence, made from woven panels of willow sticks, was known to Colonial Americans but was soon replaced by sturdier forms of barrier. This is a loss of sorts, because people who see it at ...

CONTRADA PETRARO, Sicily – They come in the middle of the night and are gone by morning. But without fail, they leave their calling cards: Pronged footprints and gashes in the ground where they've dug ...

Back when everything came from the land, fences were made from what you found. Rocky areas are still crisscrossed by stone walls that kept early settlers’ livestock in and critters out. To build ...

Back when everything came from the land, fences were made from what you found. Rocky areas are still crisscrossed by stone walls that early settlers used to keep livestock in and critters out. To ...