From forcing rhubarb to stopping slugs before they start, horticultural expert Tamsin Westhorpe explains the February tasks ...

Timing the pruning of your plants right is vital to their health. These are the flowering vines and lush bushes you should be ...

If you wait and prune these spring bloomers in the fall or winter, you will cut off all of next year’s flower buds. As we move through the end of May, it becomes imperative that any pruning (think ...

MARCH IN the Pacific Northwest can be a breath of warmth and wan sunshine, or wintry and mired in mud. Often it is both. Foraging a few stems from flowering trees and shrubs is a wonderful way to ...

I have a lot of pruning to do in my garden this winter and would like some advice on how to force some of the branches into flower? — Patty Harris, Riverwoods. Winter is a long ...

There are many different cultivars of Indian hawthorne. This particular variety is a great shrub for the southeast and is a good example of the larger cultivars, growing to about six to eight feet ...

The next few weeks are some of the year’s best for pruning landscape plants – mainly woody-stemmed ones that already have bloomed for the year, as well as most needled evergreens. Spring-blooming ...

Soak up some feelgood color with these tough but tiny blooms ...

Spring-flowering trees bring color and beauty to our late winter and spring landscapes. The earliest flowering types typically begin to bloom in late January or February (although they are blooming a ...

Starting Saturday, Feb. 14, the annual spring flower shows will open at both the Lincoln Park and Garfield Park Conservatories in Chicago.

The last weekend of March, metro Atlanta was subjected to the highest pollen count in nearly 35 years, with it surging to more than 14,000! Despite the sneezing, itchy eyes and yellow vehicles, I do ...