Q. Six years ago I was given a 2-foot jacaranda tree, potted and grown from seeds from a large, healthy, blooming tree. It has been planted and grown to about 8 feet but has never had a blossom on it.

Question: I recently planted two small Italian cypress trees that are about 2 feet tall. The bottom of the trees' foliage is drying out and crumbling away. I have been watering it regularly since ...

M.B.: Tall and skinny as a Milanese fashion model, Italian cypress have been stealing the spotlight recently with the introductions of a skinny blond 'Swane's Golden' and now a petite gray-blue called ...