Growing roses can be a challenge if it's your first time. Our gardening expert breaks down how to get started and reveals ...

Discover fall-flowering shrubs like seven-son flower, bush clover, and native witch-hazel to extend garden color, attract pollinators, and impress neighbors beyond spring blooms.

End of winter is the best time of year to prune shrubs that flower later in the growing season, i.e. from mid-June and after. The reason is that later-flowering shrubs bloom on “new wood.” This means ...

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.

As a gardening educator, one of my biggest challenges is to get people to do the right thing at the right time. Take planting roses, for instance. Nurseries generally get in their new roses in January ...

It's beneficial to keep roses away from large trees and shrubs that can overshadow them and aggressively compete for water ...

Roses are the jewels of the summer garden with their gorgeous color and fragrance, and they look equally at home in a cottage or formal outdoor setting. And, considering how many varieties are out ...

Q: How far back can I cut my 'Knock Out' shrub rose? It got way too tall last year. Also, I want to cut back a 'Diana' rose-of-sharon. It's too big for my perennial border. A: 'Knock Out' roses (my ...

As we near the busy outdoor gardening season, it’s time to stop and smell the roses. As cliché as this sounds, there’s no time like the present to consider adding roses to your landscape. Besides ...

As we enter the waning days of summer, many of our plants are just plain tired after enduring months of heat — and they’re showing it. Roses are no exception. They tend to get a bit leggy and ...