Healthy plants are the most critical component of a thriving garden. And one of the best ways to keep them that way is to make sure your soil’s pH level suits their needs. Every plant requires a specific soil pH range within which it can best absorb essential nutrients. Because the optimal ...

Trees are long-term investments that often outlive the people who plant them. And with the world’s climate changing fast, we now need to consider whether the trees we plant today will be able to withstand the changing conditions in our gardens over the next 30, 50 or even 100 ...

Wildflower meadows have been growing in popularity among gardeners, and for good reason. They’re low-maintenance and drought-tolerant, provide food for birds, wildlife, pollinators and other insects, and they’re pretty. Wildflowers are native plants, so your options will vary according to ...

When the blare of the year’s first leaf blower awakened me one morning recently, I realized spring cleanup had commenced -- no matter that the first days of spring could still roar like a lion here in my Long Island, New York, neighborhood. It stands to reason that professional landscapers ...

Peak bloom has already passed for the thousands of Japanese cherry blossom trees at the National Mall in Washington when the area was awash in magnificent pink and white. Predicting the timing of peak bloom — defined as when 70% of the blossoms have opened — has been getting harder. In ...

By JEFF LOWENFELS Associated Press The catalogs have been thumbed through, and the seed racks are sprouting like weeds at local nurseries and garden centers. There is now enough daylight across the country to start garden seeds without the aid of artificial lights. Some seeds can be planted ...