If you want a tree that will last a century, what should you plant?

That’s the question I tackle in my Monitor column this week (read it here).

Spoiler alert: Variety is the spice of long life.

The photo taken in lat June shows a giant ash I stumbled across in 2018 and previously wrote about. To my pleasant surprise, it is still thriving despite emerald ash borer. Here’s a picture giving a better sense of the size of the trunk: