CORVALLIS - Is your camellia bush looking a little bedraggled? Some older plants are so full of leaves and thin branches that they bear poor quality flowers. Others carry leaves burned by winter wind ...

Don't risk winter damage that can kill your plants.

Many plants are best left alone in November as they go dormant for the winter. As these ten are especially prone to damage, ...

Q: I have two camellia bushes that are very old and planted in the flower bed by the front porch. They are at least 7 feet tall. One is a red double camellia. The other is a single pink. They are full ...

Question: My peony buds are full of ants. Do they hurt the flowers? How can I get rid of them? Answer: Peony buds have tiny special glands called “nectaries” that produce nectar along the outside ...

Q. I have two camellia bushes that are very old and planted in the flower bed by the front porch. They are at least 7 feet tall. One is a red double camellia. The other is a single pink. They are full ...

Gardeners respect the seasonality of gardening, and we schedule seasonal topics for this column. If you have – or plan to have – Camellias in your garden, about now is when their blooms fade, and the ...

January is a highly beneficial time to prune trees and shrubs because this is the dormant period for many plants in coastal California. This column provides specific recommendations for the Monterey ...

It has been five months since a winter cold snap took down so many of our landscape plants, and the questions continue to pour in about what to do with damaged ones. Horticulturists across the South ...