If you have cleaned up the vegetable garden and cut back your perennials, you might be feeling just a little smug — especially since this gardening guy admits he is behind you in completing those ...

Florimulch or Enviromulch or a high quality dyed mulch are my top choices for mulching your gardens. They are an easy way to ...

In a recent column, I proposed mulches composed of living plants as an environmentally-friendly alternative for suppressing weeds, enhancing garden plant growth and nurturing the soil. I suspect, ...

So often we choose a tree because of its flowers, leaves, fall color or its fruit. Often, we forget about the bark. However, on many trees, the bark is the most interesting part of the tree. This can ...

A squirrel peeks out of a hole in a tree. Squirrels can damage trees through extensive stripping of the bark. Squirrels are generally good neighbors that occasionally become a nuisance by stripping ...

Q: An entire branch on my Hinoki cypress browned out and died. I looked at where the branch meets the main trunk and saw that the outer bark of the branch has peeled away from the "core" for about two ...

“Those that seek beauty in the wintertime will find it” sounds like an Aesopian proverb. But if we look beyond the brown grass and bare tree limbs and consider the often-overlooked bark of trees, a ...

Although native to eastern Asia, crape myrtles are indispensable in the Southern landscape. Its vibrantly colored flowers in shades of pink, purple, red and white from May to September virtually ...