As you drive through the countryside, you may notice a rather ornate vine with small white flowers mingling in trees and shrubs. The vine is sweet autumn clematis (Clematis paniculate or Clematis ...

Question: In last week's article, you commented that one of the factors of plant deaths over the winter is the timing of fall pruning. I thought we were supposed to prune our trees and shrubs in the ...

Spring-blooming woody plants like lilacs (especially the old, grafted varieties), ornamental cherries, forsythia, crabapples, azaleas and some magnolias set their flower buds for the following year in ...

Fall on the mainland is bright with deciduous trees changing to colors of red, orange and yellow before the leaves gently brown and drop to the ground. In Hawaii, it is the ripened red cherry of ...