Humans have used their own waste as fertilizer for thousands of years, with varying degrees of success. In King County, it’s ...

• Before the heat and dry air of spring and summer, update your irrigation system to in-line drip, flexible tubing with ...

When a friend asked me why her lemon tree, despite diligent fertilization, had bright yellow leaves and was failing to thrive, I told her I would try to determine the ...

Our neighbor has a large magnolia tree that casts very heavy shade into our yard. It has left us with a large bare area, and ...

MacCubbin gives advice on gardening in Florida including care of crinums, shrubs, fig trees and sunflowers, fertilizer storage and dealing with crabgrass ...

With its beautiful, long, pink-tinged leaves, the Hawaiian ti plant (Cordyline fruticosa) is a popular house or conservatory plant. And in warmer zones, this eye-catching evergreen can be grown ...

Azaleas are hardy here, and so are likely to survive the recent freeze. Wait until spring, when new growth emerges, to prune ...

Pruning a fig tree annually is the gardener's secret to maintaining a happy and healthy tree. It promotes fruit production ...

Winter weather is in full force across Colorado. With snow and freezing temperatures, leaves have fallen but we still have to give trees and shrubs some tender love and care.

One Redditor turns a discussion about a distressed lemon tree into a lesson on the importance of native plants.

The Japanese Yew Pine is a tidy and sustainable small- to medium-sized evergreen conifer that does quite well in Santa ...

If needed, extensive pruning should be done to spring-flowering trees and shrubs soon after they finish flowering. Prune ...