Managing your landscape after the recent freeze can be a daunting task. Often your first instinct is not what is best for your plants. Let’s look at how to manage your landscape and how to prepare ...

As Marion County faces frigid temperatures, experts offer advice on how to properly protect plants from freeze damage.

As signs of spring begin to appear, gardeners may also find signs of damage from December’s Big Freeze. Freeze damage isn’t always immediately obvious, as dormant plants that appear stone dead may ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — The snow has come and gone — and so has the excitement that came with such a meteorological rarity in Louisiana. Now, some gardeners are looking outside at a far less enjoyable ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Although many people are enjoying the warmer-than-normal temperatures, it does pose a risk to trees and shrubs. Winter is the dormant cycle for a tree. It gives trees the time to ...

As the autumn evenings cool, our gardens begin to wind down for the season. But one of the things most gardeners and plant lovers dread is the first frost or freeze of the season. Frost and freeze ...

Most landscape plants react well – or at least survive – in our usual year-to-year early-spring weather. Problems crop up when weather extremes go outside the norm or when gardeners plant species that ...

Hard freezes this week have damaged tropical plants in our landscapes. For most of us, tropical plants are worth the extra effort it takes to get them through the winter by covering them and even ...

We had two February freezes to analyze, and now we have a December 2022 freeze to consider. The freeze during Christmas week was quite cold, reaching 17 degrees in San Antonio. That is not as cold as ...

To prune or not to prune? Because of recent freezing temperatures, the question of whether to remove damaged vegetation comes up frequently. Horticulturists debate the issue, and the best answer may ...