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 ...