

Grass Facts: Tall Fescue
Advantages of tall fescue are that it stays green nearly all year long and adapts well to clay soil. Disadvantages are that it hates heat, n


Defend Against Japanese Beetles
Adults eat flowers and skeletonize leaves of a broad range of plants; plants may be completely defoliated.


Flower Facts: Heirloom Lilacs
Lilac enthusiasts especially revere the heirloom cultivars traceable to the renowned nursery of the Lemoine family of Nancy, France, who, ov


Advantages of Dead-Heading
To dead-head is to manually interfere with a plant’s natural life cycle in order to redirect its energy into a more desirable purpose. A pla


Flower Facts: Growing Hellebores
Since the poison in the plants makes them repellant to deer and other wildlife, hellebores can outlive you if given an ideal site.


Growing Raspberries
Raspberries are succulent summer-bearing fruits that tend to produce one large crop in June or July.