If your orchid is struggling or failing to bloom, fertilizer may be the answer. To fertilize your orchid, first dampen the ...

Caring for deciduous fruit trees — apples, pears, peaches, plums, apricots, cherries and others — comes down to a few ...

Protect susceptible evergreen magnolias by double-wrapping burlap around the trees. Surround small deciduous magnolias with ...

If you fertilize plants in winter when they're not growing, you risk damaging them in five ways. This guide looks at when and ...

Christmas cactus needs the right care to bloom—and recharge after. Learn expert tips for setting flowers now and keeping your ...

Growing fruit trees in containers gives you flexibility to control sunlight, size, and damaging weather. Try growing one of these fruit trees in pots.

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

So far, our winter weather has been rather wet, but not too cold. Still, make sure you have on hand a blanket of row cover for when the extra frosty winter nights occur.

Christmas is behind us, so what do the more than 300 Christmas tree growers do for the rest of the year? According to Priya ...

Just when you think things couldn’t get any worse, something smacks you upside the head and says “When are you going to learn ...

For more than 40 years, readers have been writing to gardening expert Marianne Binetti about a particularly finicky ...

Pearl acacia is a large shrub, native to Australia, that can be pruned into a tidy 10- to 20-foot-tall tree. From late fall ...