Here are some questions I dealt with this past week. Question: In a previous article, you told us not to prune cassias and Texas rangers into contorted forms. But how do we prune them right? Answer: ...

WHEN the record-cold temperatures hit in January, the questions to Barbara Eisenstein, horticulture outreach coordinator for Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont, started rolling in: My agave ...

Q: Our HOA of 40-plus years has numerous sheared shrubs and we’re trying to renovate and naturalize as many as we can. I hope you can follow up your tree pruning advice with some on the positive ...

Joyce writes: I had an agave that finally flowered, then much to my disappointment, after it finished flowering the plant died! Apparently agaves die after flowering and I am hoping there is a plant ...

Boy, 84 square feet of agave is a whole lot of sharp things. At the outset, while we sympathize with your problem, we really don't like to recommend pesticides. If you decide you have no alternative, ...

First and foremost, you're going to need a machete to cut back the dead tips. Rooted Right Plants, a Johnson City-based garden business, shared a "gardening public service announcement" last week to ...