Rooting tip cuttings from parent plants is a way to produce new plants that are copies of the parent. It's fairly easy to do ...
These late-blooming perennials are a keystone plant, providing beauty and food. Learn where to best plant them and how to ...
If you've noticed webs forming in your trees and shrubs during the summer months, don't stress. While they look like the work ...
To gauge how sick your hedge is, scratch away a small section of the outer layer of a selection of the affected branches with ...
Move the vulnerable plants to slightly more shaded areas and replace them with plants known to shrug off drought without watering. Echinops, eryngium, hylotelephium (Sedum), lavender, nepeta and ...
This is always a bittersweet time of the year for me. Gardening is one of my favorite activities during the summer, but in my ...
Fire-resistant plants don’t mean fire-proof. Plants can burn if they’re not well-maintained or if the fire is extremely hot.
Yew hedges or topiary can stay neat with just one trim per year, and October represents the end of the window to do this. Regular trimming results in dense growth – perfect for hedges or topiary – and ...
Planting bare-root roses in autumn is the secret to beautiful blooms next year. An easy (and cheaper) alternative to potted roses, bare-root roses tend to establish more quickly.
In Florida, iguanas are no longer just the occasional surprise sunning themselves on a patio. They’ve become an everyday ...
SAVING SEEDS: Collect seeds from your flowers to plant next year. They include warm-season annuals such as cosmos, cleome, ...
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