This month is a great time to get planting perennials and last week I suggested some good varieties for sunny spots that are ...

With all of the magnificent magnolia tree varieties out there, you can choose any of these types to add cups of color and ...

Happily, mulching with compost or leafmould usually remedies this. Dense shade beneath evergreen shrubs and trees is not ...

This guide will help take the guess work out of autumn clean-up and provide insight into why you should prune the perennials ...

With winter just a few weeks away, there's no need to settle for a dreary garden as several bright and beautiful blooms ...

Erythroniums pair brilliantly with trilliums, another aristocratic, shade-loving, spring-flowering woodlander, albeit one ...

This weekend's yard jobs include "cleaning up" some of the landscape, building a compost pile, and saying goodbye to the sale ...

Soils are currently very dry, as is observed if doing any planting. Amazingly, the soil is powdery dry right under the ...

October is a great time to plant shrubs because the soil is still relatively warm from the summer. As well as the fruiting ...

'English holly is the classic Holly that grows up to 4m tall whereas Japanese holly is lower growing to about 1m and often ...

Boiling water is a low-cost way to weaken a stump’s structure so that you can kill and remove it. Expose the stump’s root ...

Despite closing the garden gate back at the beginning of August, I had a request recently from a Belgian couple, who were ...