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Are you sad at the sight of fading blooms at the end of summer? Plant any of these flowering shrubs, and you'll keep your yard colorful well into fall.
Q: I have a rose-of-sharon tree that is several years old and about 6 feet tall. Every year, it gets lots of buds, but only about half end up opening up. The rest dry up and fall off. Is this some ...
Tropical flowers in various shades of pink can add a romantic, exotic touch to any garden. From bougainvillea to hibiscus, ...
Hardy and beautiful, the althea shrub is a common staple throughout the country, but there's a massive downside to this fast grower you need to keep in mind.
Don Kinzler answers questions about the best time to prune a rose bush and cross-pollination. He also gives a reader a recommendation for an evergreen tree that won't grow taller than 25 feet ...
A question for Dan Gill: When I cut off the dead flowers on my rose bushes, I noticed that some of the past blooms have grown a ball shape below the faded flower. What are they, and should I cut them ...
The majority of roses Americans give one another on Valentine’s Day, roughly 200 million in all, grow here, the savanna outside Bogota, summoned from the soil by 12 hours of natural sunlight, the ...
I notice that when I go to cut off the dead flowers on my rose bushes, some of the past blooms have grown a ball shape below the faded flower. I wondered what they were and if I should really be ...