When the first frost of the season descends upon your garden, unprepared roses feel it first. The key to preventing cold damage in roses is knowing when to start preparing them for dormancy and ...

In the fall, clean up roses, add mulch around the plants, and water during especially long dry spells. Do not deadhead, fertilize, or prune roses unless for overwintering prep. To overwinter roses, ...

It’s hard to believe we are already into June. Our plants have come alive with flowers and green leaves. That is, most of them are. The ugly side of our brief cold snap in January is that a lot of ...

January is here and we will still experience cold temperatures since it is the second coolest month of the year.

Roses can lose their buds in January, preventing them from growing flowers all year, but there is an easy job gardeners can ...

As Mother Nature begins to taunt us with brief periods of warm weather in late winter, when should we start to worry about the various fruits we’re striving to grow? A late winter or early spring warm ...

Most landscape plants react well – or at least survive – in our usual year-to-year early-spring weather. Problems crop up when weather extremes go outside the norm or when gardeners plant species that ...

Let’s face it. Many of our cold-damaged landscapes have a bad case of ugly this spring. And I’m still getting lots of questions on how to deal with the damage. So, the big question is, “How long do I ...