A number of readers have inquired as to the status of garden soil or landscaped ground following a fire.

The Western Kentucky Botanical Garden’s 13th annual Orchid Show & Sale is scheduled for Saturday with 100 Phalaenopsis orchids available. That’s up from the average of 50 orchids in recent years, and ...

Dear Neil: I’m seeing the landscape guys putting mounds of mulch around tree trunks in town. Is that really a good idea? It ...

• Before the heat and dry air of spring and summer, update your irrigation system to in-line drip, flexible tubing with ...

While there is no hurry to prune dead growth off these plants, do be sure to do it before they start to send up new growth in ...

Will this year begin another drought cycle? Or will we get unending storms the rest of winter and into spring? We don’t know, ...

"You will slowly kill your beautiful tree." Homeowner desperate for solutions after realizing terrible landscaping mistake: ...

"It does cover ground quickly, but it's super invasive and extremely hard to eradicate once it's established. I've been fighting it in our backyard, where some of the vines have gotten so big they ...

Erosion can whisk away valuable topsoil and even cause whole embankments to collapse. These plants will help lock soil in ...

"My preference is a mulch ring out to the drip line." Homeowner scrambles to undo damage done by previous owner: 'This is ...

It’s a scale insect that attaches to the bark of a crapemyrtle. If you have a crapemyrtle in your landscape ... these are the protective covers that keep the scale insect safe underneath.

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