Rayman Boozer, the founder of the interior design firm Apartment 48, likes to build a gumdrop tree for the holidays, as his mother and grandmother did when he was growing up in Alabama.

Randy L. Rasmussen/The OregonianA fabric bag holds the story of the gumdrop tree for each child. Angie Moore cherishes many childhood memories of her grandmother, who lived next door to her in ...

Q: What do you suggest growing for gumdrop tree material? I need some like I remember from my childhood 60 years ago. Marsha Yeager, email Q: In August, you wrote that Joro spider venom is nothing ...

The “Gumdrop Tree” was even one of the reasons Hayly Schmeiser and her husband, Ben Ronquillo, bought the house back in 2011. But a tree that size also leads to some inevitabledifficulties. To prevent ...