It has been a strange year in more ways than one. In 2020, many nurseries had record sales of annual plants, along with perennials, shrubs and trees. This ye...

Q I have established asparagus beds, 5-10 years old, producing well. Some are shooting up into spindly ferns. Do I break off those ferns this early in harves...

Q Not to beat a dead horse on what to do about this abundant shrub still looking so awful around town, but at this point what little flowering they can muste...

Q This plant is growing in a dormant pasture. I've never seen a bloom such as this.

It's spring! It feels like we have gone through all four seasons in a week, but let's hope the most recent cold weather was the last.

Q I hope you can help me with a couple of gardening questions. I have six 17-inch hanging baskets that hang along our deck and are in full sun almost all day...

Gardeners are continuing to agonize over their cold-damaged plants. Some just can't seem to overlook the brown leaves and are ready to rip up their entire ya...

Q I'm sending a picture of a tree in our yard that has borer holes all over it. I'm not sure what kind of tree it is but am sending a full-size picture of it...

Q I'd appreciate your opinion about this azalea bed. Should it recover from the low temperatures? It is so much more affected than our other azaleas that are...

March 4 came and went and, luckily, nothing happened. There was no inauguration of Donald Trump as the 19th (??) president, but because of the threat of QAno...

Q This is in Atlanta now. Any idea what it is? Very fragrant.

I think we are all happy to put February behind us and set our sights to spring. Mother Nature was not kind to our gardens, and there are a lot of reminders ...

Q Could this be bacterial galls I'm seeing on older Santa Rosa plum trees? If so, should I remove the older trees with galls?

This past week, gardeners watched with dread as the temperature dropped lower and lower. A mild winter had many plants coming out of dormancy well ahead of s...

Q Is it OK to set out shrubs and move shrubs now in El Dorado?