This week's column addresses when to pinch back annual and perennial flowers, characteristics of a good potting mix and ...

The Springfield News-Leader in Springfield, Missouri, partners with ... be removing future flowers. Certain flowers such as asters, mums, bee balm, and phlox benefit greatly from being pinched ...

Spring has sprung! The vernal equinox took place March 20, when daytime and nighttime are the same length. The grass is ...

Bradford pear trees, an incredibly invasive and non-native species, are back and spreading fast across Missouri.

Spring is in bloom. Here are our favorite places to frolic through fields of flowers, from the Pacific Northwest to the Appalachian Mountains. Wildflowers carpet the fields and hills of the ...

But in Southern California, shrubs and other perennial native plants such as monkey flowers, phlox, sages, buckwheats and manzanitas will start blooming beautifully in our wild places, Becker said.