Q: How and when should rose bushes be pruned and winterized? A: What kind of roses do you have? What kind of winter weather ...

1. When pruning, it is advisable to disinfect pruning shears when moving from one plant to the next so as to prevent the spread of pathogens – bacteria, fungi, and viruses – that cause disease. Common ...

Q. Last fall, I purchased a home with a very beautiful, established landscape. While I am pretty confident about my abilities to tend to most plants, I have two prominent areas that contain a plant ...

The gardening subject with the most advice and the greatest anxiety is pruning roses. January is the right time of the year for this task (with some inevitable exceptions, which we’ll get to), so ...

Easy care roses have become a staple in the landscape. Don’t recognize the term easy-care? Maybe you would by the most commonly planted varieties, Knock Out roses. This one group of plants is prized ...

Even though I have only two roses (Rosa glauca, the blue-foliaged beauty; and 'Lyda Rose,' a totally disease-resistant, single white-blushed-pink shrub rose that blooms and blooms and blooms and ...

BOSSIER CITY, La. - With spring just around the corner, now is the time for gardeners to grab their pruning gloves and shears. Mark Wilson, an extension agent with the LSU AgCenter, shared his best ...

Climbing roses are actually one of the few plants you should prune in October, but again, only lightly. In fact, trimming them in autumn can protect them from winter damage – and because they ...