When we moved into our house there was a stump out front from a tree that had been cut down by the previous owners. Rather than remove the stump and sterilize the soil to stop regrowth, I decided to try to regrow the tree - and 3 years later it's ~15 feet tall!

Stump removal costs way more money than one might expect, and then you also have to buy a new tree. I suggest this method of trying to re-grow the tree first because after cutting down a tree, you often times still have an established and healthy root system that will grow a new tree faster than if you plant a new one.

In this video I show you my tips and tricks for how to re-grow a tree from a stump with this Brazilian Pepper Tree (Zone 9b Phoenix AZ area).

Word of warning for fruit tree growers -- this method is not advised for most fruit trees (especially citrus) because what will regrow from the ground is the "rootstock" and not the "graft." Most fruit trees are grafted onto a less tasty but more hardy rootstock, so the regrowth you would get from the ground on a fruit tree is not advised to re-grow unless you don't care about the fruit. If you have a fruit tree grown from seed or air layer, then this method in the video can still be used.