The Prospect Park Alliance is cutting down one-third of the trees in the Dog Beach Elm Grove because of Dutch elm disease.

Or incorporate the stump into your garden design as a pedestal ... Don't be tempted by the chemical cocktails “guaranteed” to kill a tree that you may find on the internet.

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.

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