Q: Which varieties of double altheas do best? I have nice purple single ones I rooted from cuttings from my mom’s house before we sold it. How should they be trained to grow bushier? A: Every time I ...

Dear Neil: I have St. Augustine, and all through this difficult summer, it continued looking healthy. In July, I mistakenly applied a soil activator/root starter. There are huge patches of dead grass ...

Q: This weed/vine/grass is overtaking the bare spots in my St. Augustine lawn where chinch bugs killed the St. Augustine last summer. Glyphosate works well where it has taken over fully, but I’m ...

Lawns have been lethargic this spring, even more so than in recent years. Bermuda has dead spots, and St. Augustine definitely is again showing signs of take all root rot. Both could be caused by the ...

What time of year are red-tip photinias pruned? The first line of defense is a healthy lawn. But since you have so many weeds, eliminate those first, then re-sod large, bare areas and/or plug smaller, ...