FULL TILT: Some of the taller gingers, such as hedychium, alpinia and costus, may get top-heavy when they bloom and lean or fall over. A little graceful leaning is generally not an issue, but consider ...

It looks like we may have an early spring this year, so it’s time to start cleaning up and cutting back cold-damaged perennials. How far back to cut depends on how extensive the cold damage was. You ...

As the warm weather of late spring arrives and we look around our landscapes, the mildness of last winter becomes apparent. Tropical plants on the south shore were barely touched by winter cold, and ...

Except for a couple of freezes, it has been a relatively mild winter. But those freezes were cold enough and long enough to kill many tropical plants almost to the ground. Will we have more freezes?

Our winter temperatures go back and forth all season here in North Florida – one week it’s winter, the next week we may think spring has arrived. This back and forth with cold and mild temperatures ...

From the ominous snow-filled landscape outside the Overlook Hotel in “The Shining” to Ned Stark’s grave warning that winter was coming in “Game of Thrones,” pop culture has taught us that winter can ...