For many garden-minded Portlanders, with winter comes a certain degree of anxiety. Winter—overwhelmingly overcast, eternally ...

"Your only real hope is to cultivate a full garden." Gardener fed up with father's loyalty to inefficient and problematic ...

Biodegradable mulch and landscaping fabric are both used to combat weeds, but these products are very different. Learn which ...

One frustrated gardener shared their experience with attempting to remove landscape fabric, highlighting the pitfalls of ...

Do you find you’re left with hordes of wrapping paper after Christmas and have no idea what to do with it? Well, shredding it and adding it to your plants as mulch is the easy way to recycle wrapping ...

The main reason to prune a palm tree is for aesthetics. Unlike other shrub or tree pruning, cutting back the tree won’t ...

Gardenias can be sensitive to extended frosts and benefit from proper overwinter care. Follow these expert tips to protect ...

If you are thinking about making your yard more sustainable or eco-friendly in the coming year, have you considered creating a native landscape? To me, creating and nurturing a space that is in sync ...

Sensitive plants can be covered ahead of the cold. The material must extend all the way to the ground and be sealed with soil ...

Now they have discovered a unique way they can use their old rags. In the Creative Gardening Facebook group ... You need to take a dense fabric of any size. "This will depend on the size of ...

For beautiful summer roses in USDA Hardiness Zones 6 and lower, plants need protection during winter temperatures. Learn how ...