One of the great things about junipers—along with the fact they’re usually ignored by deer—is how self-sufficient they are. Junipers practically set the gold standard for “plant ‘em and forget ‘em” ...

The next few weeks are some of the year’s best for pruning landscape plants – mainly woody-stemmed ones that already have bloomed for the year, as well as most needled evergreens. Spring-blooming ...

Sometimes a garden shrub grows too large for its site. It may have long branches blocking a walkway or window. It may be shading out other plants or getting wider and taking over a bed. Or, it may ...

Pruning — a term that invokes fear in the best of the gardeners, and for good reason. Pruning is complicated. You must know the correct timing and follow the right technique, or your plants will be ...

The needles on my 'Blue Point' junipers are turning a dull green and, at the bottom, some have turned brown and are dropping. The other plants in the area under the same irrigation path are doing fine ...