Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... We focused recently on whether to prune trees and shrubs in January or wait until late winter/early spring. This decision is based on the plant’s bloom time.

All gardens occasionally benefit from a substantial work-over. In today’s column, I describe such a project in my garden. In brief, the project basically involves exchanging two groups of plants.

We hear the message to conserve water a lot nowadays, and it’s little wonder with another year of drought stressing our state. Conserving water is a principle of Earth-friendly gardening and both the ...

There was a time when I turned up my nose at succulents. But somewhere along the way, I started looking more closely and realized that they are amazingly varied, beautiful and dramatic. Now they are ...

This time of year evening night lights burn brighter, the stars shimmer ever so slightly in the night sky and the early morning dew sparkles in reflective light across our gardens. The feelings of ...