Mulch insulates the soil and protects roots from freeze-thaw cycles that cause more damage than steady cold. Spread a layer ...

What a gift to be a gardener at this time of year! For most other people, winter just grinds on, with dingy snowdrifts melting into puddles that will freeze into ice slicks. But gardeners don’t ...

A: Unfortunately, some trees produce more surface roots than others, and some produce the roots because they are growing in ...

Get Neil Sperry's gardening answers on yellow butterfly vine propagation, pruning figs and abelias, fertilizing winter ...

Winter pruning takes advantage of the plant’s dormancy. With sap flow slowed and leaves gone, structural flaws are easy to ...

A meadow under the rising moon, glowing with tawny grasses, punctuated by dark candle-flame cedars — this is a quintessential ...

Anyone who has a garden is being warned not to cut their hedges this month in a bid to help struggling wildlife in this ...

January is the month of rain, snow, ice, freezing temperatures, fog and wind. Sounds good? Growth slows down in winter, but ...

Roses can grow anywhere in the United States, but the best way to, when and how to prune roses depends on how cold the ...

It can be tempting to ignore your garden in the winter, but there are some vital jobs that need to be done now to ensure your ...

A freeze warning was issued by the National Weather Service in Los Angeles-Oxnard at 12:40 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 9.

Another thing that can be planted this month is your bulbs. Although autumn is usually the best time to plant bulbs, there is ...