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How to Get Rid of Bagworms Before They Damage Your Shrubs You may be walking through your yard and notice small, cone-shaped bags hanging from the branches of a shrub or tree. At first glance, they can look like harmless pieces of dried foliage. Unfortunately, those little bags are not decorations. They may be bagworms….
How to Keep Your Garden Watered While on Vacation A summer vacation should be relaxing. Unfortunately, it is hard to enjoy your trip when you are wondering whether your shrubs, flowers, and container plants are slowly turning into crispy decorations back home. Hot weather can dry out a garden quickly, especially when rainfall is inconsistent….
How to Keep Container Plants from Drying Out in Summer Container plants can add color and life to a porch, patio, walkway, or garden bed. But when summer temperatures rise, those beautiful pots can dry out much faster than plants growing in the ground. Plants in containers have a limited amount of soil to hold…
How to Get Rid of Japanese Beetles on Shrubs You walk outside to admire your flowering shrubs and notice that some of the leaves look like lace. Unfortunately, this is not a new decorative garden trend. Japanese beetles may be having lunch in your yard. Japanese beetles are shiny, metallic-looking insects that often appear during…
How to Keep Newly Planted Shrubs Alive in Summer Planting a new flowering shrub is exciting. You pick the perfect spot, dig the hole, add mulch, and step back to admire your work. Then the summer heat arrives, the leaves begin to droop, and your beautiful new shrub starts looking like it has given up…
When and How to Prune Spring-Blooming Shrubs Spring-blooming shrubs bring some of the first big splashes of color to the garden. Azaleas, weigela, lilacs, forsythia, viburnum, and oakleaf hydrangeas can put on an impressive show after a long winter. However, pruning these plants at the wrong time can leave you wondering where all the flowers…