You might have heard that little gardening trick about “pinching back the mums” — the pruning technique that keeps our favorite fall-blooming flower from flopping apart. But what few realize is that ...

I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins and worse remains behind. Hamlet Act 3; Scene 4 William Shakespeare. At this time of year you must learn to be cruel to be kind to some of your ...

Trim a tree, save a life. Biologists working in Mali are proposing an unorthodox strategy to rein in malaria: gardening. The team found the flowers of an invasive tree, which has overrun African ...

To snip or not to snip? That is the late-summer dilemma shade gardeners dread. I’m talking hosta flowers. It’s not fair, is it? The hostas have spent all summer playing second fiddle to other ...

Gardeners tend to grow hostas (Hosta spp.) for their beautiful foliage. Many cultivars sport leaves that are oversized, variegated, or interesting colors such as chartreuse and blue-green. If your ...