DEAR JANET: I live in West Little Rock and recently got told by our homeowners association that we need to be mindful of when we turn our sprinkler systems on,…

DEAR JANET: I am sending a photo of my camellia shrubs. I have trimmed them once this spring, perhaps a 10%-15% cut. They have always been evergreen and health…

DEAR JANET: This bush is about 12 feet tall and under three large oak trees. It gets little direct sunlight before about 2 p.m. Some leaves have turned yellow …

DEAR JANET: My crape myrtle tree does not seem to be doing well this year. It only has leaves from certain limbs and has not leafed out as it has in the past. …

Here’s the list of chores and choices home gardeners should tend to in May.

DREAR JANET: It appears the hard freezes have killed both my guava and banana shrub. Both have bark blown off at the base and no leaves or buds emerging. I pla…

DEAR JANET: With all the advice from you and others about being patient and waiting for plants to grow, I did the same thing with my roses. Now they are bloomi…

DEAR JANET: Will the evening primrose I planted to cover a ditch by the road spread over the yard to choke out my spiderwort and catmint? Will black-eyed Susan…

Can you tell me the name of this purple ground cover? [The reader sent the above photograph.]

My asparagus bed seems be producing smaller diameter shoots, which I am allowing to grow into ferns. Could the bed be getting old (it's approximately 10 years …

All of our plants are thriving and blooming again. April Fool's! Sorry, we need a laugh these days when it comes to our gardens. But truthfully, in spite of th…

My gardenias, 5 and 6 feet tall, were hit bad last year. I babied them and they had mostly recovered and even had a weak blooming last fall. December's freeze …

We have had one of the bleakest winter landscapes in recent memory. The December deep freeze turned our normally green world into a brown and burned one.

A few weeks ago, a few of these items showed up in our yard. Do you care to hazard a guess as to what they are? They look like alien creatures to me, although …

Another week of answers to all manner of questions related to gardening, courtesy of Janet Carson.