A brown lawn doesn't always mean your grass needs more water. Drought stress, insect damage, and fungal disease are three ...

There’s so much to experience — the tastes, the sites, the history — in northern Spain and southwestern France.

As is the case with many garden jobs, there is a manual tool and a powered one for hedges too. For light hedge pruning, a ...

Red raspberries actually prefer cooler summer days and nights, while black raspberries handle more heat without complaint.

It’s a bad sign for the health of your shrubs if they are leafing out sparsely now and there is no new growth at the base. If the top of a shrub is thin and there is substantial new growth at the base ...

Fruit tree pruning, and many other pruning chores, are not only for the winter dormant season. It is true that some kinds of pruning are best reserved for winter, like significant structural pruning ...

If you want a garden full of stunning blooms every spring, protect your plants by pruning them at the right time. Summer isn't a good time to prune plants that develop next year's buds right after ...

The start of summer is an important window for thinning and shaping certain trees. Photo courtesy Getty Images. Welcome to our tree column, “Ask your local arborist.” Each month, arborist George Reno ...

Jackie French is an Australian author, historian, ecologist and honourary wombat (part time), 2014-2015 Australian Children' ...