Blog: New Garden Notes

Quick tips for avoiding the fungal disease Brown Patch in lawns

Good container plantings require little maintenance aside from watering and can enhance your home through the spring, summer, and fall. 

Is your forsythia starting to bloom for Christmas? Here's why some plants flower during warm winter days.

This is a question we have been asked frequently this fall. 

Where and why this is not bad advice, and where it’s a terrible idea.

Plant some of these low-maintenance (and critter resistant) spring bloomers this fall.

Don’t wait until your summer annuals give up the ghost to plant your fall pansies!

Don't cut too much if you decide to tidy up your crape myrtles in late summer and fall!

It looks like someone Silly Stringed your garden, but it's actually a whole lot weirder.

Rose sawfly is a common pest of roses. Identifying rose sawfly damage is important to select the best control methods.

There is a method to insure that you can have fresh cilantro all summer.

Camellias are relatively unfussy and problem-free shrubs, but they can develop camellia leaf gall, a unique and odd-looking disease.

Here’s how to manage-and maybe even prevent-an aphid problem in your landscape.

Powdery mildew and sooty mold rarely kill your plants, but they will make them look terrible. Here's what to look for and how to treat these fungal plant diseases.

What do you do when you've run out of bed area to plant all the flowers you want, or have moved into a new home without enough garden beds to make you happy? Make some new ones!

Did your flowering vinca look like this after a chilly night?

The popular and aptly named butterfly bush (Buddleia sp.) is very easy to prune. Here's how!

For some evergreen shrubs a few cold nights this winter were bad enough to cause damage to leaves that normally get through the winter just fine.