Now that spring is turning the corner, every gardener has their eye on the ground for bulbs and early blooming plants to pop up at any time. The last thing we want to see, though, could be some of our ...

A dense mat of beautiful yellow flowers shaped like grinning mouths growing from a mat of silvery leaves sounds like an excellent substitute for a lawn begging for maintenance. Even better, this ...

The lowly dandelion (Taxaracum officinale) is another yellow weed carpeting our area now. However, ecologists are not raising the same alarm about dandelions because they are most troublesome in ...

Stop invasive plants taking over your borders ...

Removal isn’t the only option for a big, old shrub that’s outgrowing its space or just not blooming well anymore. Many overgrown shrubs can be brought back into size and shape and even induced to ...

A friend of mine told me she had some type of fast-growing grass in our flower beds that seemed to grow even more when she pulled it up. She was wondering what this grass was and how to control it.