A healthy stump means longer-lasting garden ideas. Ensure it's free from major cracks and rot, which could affect your project. If it’s not, consider finding ways to remove a tree stump, ...

Gardeners who have a tree stump rotting in their garden have been issued an urgent warning not to touch it or remove it. At this time of year especially, gardens begin to fill with mess.

This would probably be illegal and might well kill whatever was living on the rotting tree stump, though. Better to have decomposing wood in a garden. If you have a dying tree, let it die.

While it may be tempting to clean up the mess, gardeners are being advised to leave any tree stumps untouched as they can actually benefit the garden. In her book The Joyful Environmentalist ...

Gardeners who have tree stumps rotting in their garden have been issued an urgent warning: don’t touch it. At this time of year especially, gardens begin to fill with mess. Dead leaves pile up ...

This would probably be illegal and might well kill whatever was living on the rotting tree stump, though. Better to have decomposing wood in a garden. If you have a dying tree, let it die.