If a plant is healthy and relatively unstressed, the normal seasonal move to cooler weather triggers dormancy.

While strawberry plants need some cold to send them into dormancy, they also need protection from freezing weather. Here's ...

Late winter can be a good time to force branches from spring-flowering trees and shrubs to bloom indoors. Once buds open, move the branches to a brighter room, out of direct sunlight. The arrival of ...

MacCubbin gives gardening advice for Central Florida residents about chrysanthemums, ficus trees, fall vegetable gardens and ...

Life’s too short for floppy foliage where you expected blooms. Try growing tulips like a flower farmer to get beaucoup bouquets out of your spring garden.

Pomegranate trees flourish in well-draining loamy soils with a pH between 5.5 and 7.0, which is slightly acidic to neutral. However, this fruit tree is adaptable to a wide range of soil types, ...

There is an unusual cactus native to the Sonoran desert that for most of the year looks like a dead stick with a jumble of gray and purplish stems. But once every summer after the sun has set, it ...