If you have a small backyard, you may assume you're limited in the flowers and shrubs you can plant. With a small backyard, you need to be careful not to overdo your gardening efforts, which could ...

Fall isn’t just for pumpkin spice, cozy sweaters, and leaf piles—it’s also one of the most underrated times to give your ...

Fall is an important time in lawn and landscape maintenance as many insect and disease problems encountered during the current growing season may survive until next season on or in plant debris.

Whether you cultivate flowers or vegetables, growing them in raised beds can lift your garden to new heights. They make planting easy, allow you to grow favorites that might prove difficult in central ...

Whether Tim Burton's "Wednesday" or a resurgence in '90s trends is to blame -- goth is back. To get the look in your garden, ...

Q: I read your recommendation on PennLive.com about using a broad-leaf weed-killer to get rid of wild strawberries in the lawn without killing the grass. What about wild strawberries growing up ...

When it comes to preparing their perennial gardens for winter, different gardeners have different preferences.

Q: I have silver maple roots growing up into my raised flower beds. Any way to control it short of lining the beds with something permanent and expensive? A: Short answer: Not that I know of. There ...

When you face a flower bed and can’t immediately tell what’s a weed and what’s a flower, you have a situation my wife calls "Code Red." It happens to the best of us at times — myself included. So what ...

We’re blessed with temperate weather in Southern California, perfect for growing all kinds of vegetables and flowers year-round ... if only we could get a spade into our soil. That’s the rub with ...