Azaleas are often low maintenance yet offer striking spring blooms for the backyard, which is in part what makes them so popular. Once they are established azaleas do not need much aftercare. They ...

Playing golf in February hardly seems unusual here in the semi-tropics, but it's unheard of in places like Chicago. Except for this year, of course. Earlier this week, high temperatures there flirted ...

Azaleas and Rhododendrons are among the most coveted landscape plants. Despite their popularity, few people understand that azaleas belong to the larger Rhododendron family. The Rhododendron family ...

Before plants leaf out for the spring, it’s a good idea to take some time for maintenance tasks in the garden. Here are two important items to put on your to-do list: pruning and fertilizing your ...

We gardeners routinely describe fertilizing as “feeding” our plants, but that’s not accurate. Plants “feed” themselves, producing their own food in the form of sugars through photosynthesis. We add ...

I do believe the blast of cold air that came through the area the last few nights finally put our landscape plants to rest for the winter. At least we shouldn't have to worry about mowing the lawn ...