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.

Tinner, from Brean, Somerset, constructed the stump as part of a project to re-wild his garden four years ago. He said: "I created Wonderland Cottage out of an old tree stump and put a living roof ...

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.