A day or two after a good rain is an excellent time to apply herbicides to the lawn to kill weeds. One of our most despised weeds in the lawn is bahia grass.

The landscape problem I have seen and heard about the most in the last two or three weeks has been fire blight on flowering pear trees.

Earlier this week I ran into an old friend who described to me a weed problem he has in his lawn.

Some of you have already been running your irrigation system this spring with the above-average spring heat. Have you checked your system to make sure it is working correctly?

One of my favorite summer blooming plants is lantana. It's such a great, drought-tolerant plant - something that is more and more important because of the summer droughts.

Carpenter bees are a big nuisance every spring. They came out of hibernation about two weeks ago looking for wood to bore into and should continue for about another two to three weeks.

Mosses are branched, threadlike plants that form a tangled, thick mat over the soil. Cultural practices that favor the growth of turfgrass will reduce the competition from moss.

If your lawn has a history of take-all patch, now is the time to be treating with a fungicide.

Since getting rid of weeds in the lawn is by far the biggest topic on everyone's mind, I will continue to address this. Three weeks ago, I wrote about Florida betony. Two weeks ago it was about ...

A landscaping mistake I continue to see around the Augusta area is putting large piles of mulch around young or newly planted shade trees.

It's weed time in Augusta. Every other question I get is "how do I kill all these weeds in my lawn?" Winter weed growth has gotten a head start this year because of our warm winter.

The weed most brought into my office for identification the last two weeks has been Florida betony. This prolific weed also goes by the name rattlesnake weed because of the resemblance of the ...

My preference is for you to not plant sod during the dormant season, but much of it depends on the type of grass you are sodding and the situation.

We all know how houseplants add to a home's décor. But did you know that they can also purify the indoor air?

Living in the Augusta area, we are all used to seeing fluctuations of the temperature during the winter. We had a high of 73 degrees on New Year's Day. By Wednesday morning, it was 20 degrees.

The frigid weather we've had this week makes us want to build more fires in our fireplaces and wood stoves. I've probably had fewer fires in my fireplace so far this year than in the past several ...

Today's column is my annual recap of the gardening year. Last year, I said that 2010 was a year of extremes, one of those being how hot the summer was. Well, as most of you know, 2011 beat 2010.

With the outset of winter, it is time for houseplants to take a well-deserved rest.

We are in December, not August. But I see sprinklers running every day. Basically nothing needs watering every day, especially plants in the ground.

People collect and plant seeds from mature plants with the expectation that the new plants will be like the original.