David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Deadheading your flowers is an easy garden task, but is it completely necessary? The answer is sometimes! Deadheading, or removing spent blooms and seed pods, encourages some annuals to bloom over and ...

Q: I have planted quite a few phlox plants in my border this year, and they are flowering beautifully. When the blooms fade, is it a good idea to deadhead them? And if so, what's the best approach to ...

There are plenty of plant care techniques that help growers yield greater gains, like wiring and “screen of green” netting that help plants grow higher and reach more sun. And of course there’s ...

When the calendar reaches August each summer, many flowering plants are near the end of the first act of the glorious show they orchestrate in our landscapes each season. This is the time when many of ...

(Illustration by Tony O. Champagne, NOLA.com|The Times-Picayune archive) QUESTION: When you say deadhead, what are you referring to and how should it be done properly? I have trimmed back mums with ...