When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty Images By the time fall arrives lots of plants in your yard have probably taken on ...

Pruning plants in the fall doesn’t just keep your garden looking neat. It also wards off disease and pests while giving perennials a head start on healthy growth for the spring. Some plants, like ...

November marks the end of the fall and is a transitional period into winter. It is a month when many gardens get the first frosts, which kill back summer-flowering plants, and deciduous trees and ...

This week, gardening columnist Don Kinzler fields questions about saving shrubs damaged by deer, when to trim back geraniums wintering in the basement, and how to kill quackgrass in peonies. A reader ...

Cutting back peonies matters because timing affects their health and helps prevent diseases from returning next spring. Prune peonies only after the leaves die back since those green leaves give the ...

In the Midwest, stories abound about farm dads who used to mow down garden peonies with the tractor as soon as the last bloom died in late spring. In spite of such harsh treatment, the stalwart ...