A few years ago, I had a client who had my team site a variety of plants for her. She also had me take a hard look at one of her lilacs. I took my normal analysis of what was going on with the lilac ...

Shade trees are extremely important to most landscapes, providing aesthetic and functional design elements. Landscapes would be void of shade, color and design without trees. Understandably, ...

I had a reader ask this week why her native dogwoods were suffering so. There are a few reasons for this, and none of them are good. I remember 25 years ago when I was in graduate school and a primary ...

This was supposed to be a column all about the poetic and magical connection between mothers and their gardens — how starting way back in days of yore, when we were all bearskin-wearing ...

The Eufaula City Horticultural department will soon replace diseased dogwoods with a new, resistant variety of the popular flowering tree. Eufaula is one of the first cities in Alabama to acquire ...

The other day while gazing out my front window, I noticed the leaves on one of the two flowering dogwood trees looked very small. I darted out of the house to get a close look and was shocked to see ...

The moment you notice that the treasured dogwood in the yard has withering leaves and dead branches can be disheartening, and sadly, it’s an all too common sight this summer. A lot of the calls that ...

I planted a pagoda dogwood three or four years ago, and I just noticed that several small branches appear to be dead, as they are not leafing out. Some of the branches have an odd yellow coloring on ...

I noticed a dogwood blooming downtown recently and wondered if this was a fluke or if there was a variety that blooms later or longer? This year it seemed like there were not many dogwoods blooming at ...