Depending upon the type of gardening you enjoy, August can be a month with fewer garden tasks and activities. If you tend a large vegetable garden, you are still busy with harvesting, doing battle ...

Whether you're new to gardening or have been in the game for years, you should know these two important perennials that can completely transform your landscape.

Our most recent column addressed the planning of a year-round garden, including designing landscape basics and searching for (mostly) California native plants. Today’s column introduces guidelines for ...

Plants are classified as annuals, biennials or perennials based on their life cycles. Biennials, like foxglove, have a vegetative year followed by a flowering year. Perennials, including woody shrubs ...

Dividing herbaceous perennials in the fall is an easy way to create new plants for your garden. A herbaceous perennial overwinters as a fleshy underground mass that can be cut into smaller pieces to ...

Key Points Whether to prune perennials in November depends on the type of plant.Plants with powdery mildew should be pruned ...

It might seem like fall is the time to wind down garden activities, but quite the opposite: Conditions during autumn can be ...

While a fall application of mulch can be beneficial to plants, we have seen a growing trend of piling mulch much deeper than ...

Our most recent column addressed the planning of a year-round garden, including designing landscape basics and searching for (mostly) California native plants. To review that column, browse ...