If you can't "learn to live with them," Neil Sperry suggests a ground cover that makes mowing around them unnecessary.

How Mulch Benefits Your Garden. Using mulch around trees and landscape plantings keeps grass from competing with them for ...

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

This colorful flower is gorgeous and tall enough to act as a privacy barrier for your home or garden. Here are the details on ...

The weather has warmed above last week's freezing temperatures. But it's still winter and your garden is susceptible to freezes. What you should know.

on the surface of flower beds or plant pots. Doing this has several well-known benefits, including retaining soil moisture, suppressing weeds, adding nutrients and insulating plant roots. Mulch is ...

You should use mulch for your garden, but what’s the best mulch for flower beds to get? Are you looking for a worthy investment that is good in most aspects? Like others, The Four Winds Trading ...

Making tunnels using cattle panels as support over beds and then draping with greenhouse sheet plastic or row cover is great for warming up a planting bed. BLACK MULCH: Applying a sheet of black ...

Dear Neil: I’m seeing the landscape guys putting mounds of mulch around tree trunks in town. Is that really a good idea? It seems like it would cause decay in the wood of the trunks.

However, February is a good time to cut back Pee Gee hydrangeas (Hydrangea paniculata with pointed blooms) and the smooth or mountain hydrangeas (Hydrangea serralata) such as Limelight, Incrediball ...

If you feed and water your roses regularly starting in March, your blooms will be stronger and better able to shrug off pests ...

Several areas of my lawn are on rather steep slopes. Over the past few years, the roots of several trees have appeared on the ...