Why we love it: The pin oak attracts butterflies and hummingbirds and provides food for the gray hairstreak butterfly and squirrels. Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) is on the list of easy-to-grow trees for ...

The trees — a hulking pin oak and a much slimmer Japanese pagoda — had each suffered a single deep slash that ran several inches deep. The crude cuts ran about half the circumference of the ...