“Root pruning” sounds like such a brutal way to treat a plant. Yet it’s a periodic necessity once any potted plant has grown as large as you want it to. Potted plants — like other plants — grow, and ...

Root pruning sounds like a brutal way to treat a plant. Yet it’s a periodic necessity when a potted plant has grown as large as you want it to. While a 50-foot weeping fig is a glorious sight on a ...

Potted plants not doing so well? Plants growing in pots are usually less trouble-prone than their in-ground, weed- and rabbit-invaded, clay-soil-bound brethren, but that doesn’t mean you can plant ...

You will want to finish pruning your roses by early-February (preferably this week in the Palm Springs desert) so that they can rest for a couple weeks before our early spring tells them to start ...

Q: I have a hibiscus in a 20-inch clay pot with wrinkled flower buds, small leaves and leggy stems. The hibiscus gets filtered light on my south-facing patio and gets hand-watered every other day. A: ...

Here's how to prune a jade plant that's gotten overgrown or scraggly. Jade plants are regal, tree-shaped succulents that can be the stars of your plant collection. And when you know how to prune a ...

December is gift-giving time, and what better gifts to give your gardening besties (or yourself) than the opportunity to become a better gardener? That’s the goal of Garden School, the gardening ...

In Canada, even the ficus trees haven't been spared the budget cut hatchet. The potted plants in Canada's House of Commons buildings, the CBC reports, will soon be rounded up and auctioned off as part ...