Now that spring is turning the corner, every gardener has their eye on the ground for bulbs and early blooming plants to pop up at any time. The last thing we want to see, though, could be some of our ...

Control tactics: A dense, vigorous lawn is the best way to combat henbit. Mow the lawn at 3½ to 4 inches tall to promote ...

The lowly dandelion (Taxaracum officinale) is another yellow weed carpeting our area now. However, ecologists are not raising the same alarm about dandelions because they are most troublesome in ...

Yellow Alyssum (Alyssum alyssoides) and desert alyssum (Alyssum desertorum) are winter annual mustards that are very similar in appearance. Both are from Eurasia and they grow from 3 to 10 inches tall ...

Yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis), a native of the Mediterranean region, is a knapweed, rather than thistle. This winter annual, blooms at 4 to 60 inches tall. It usually germinates in the ...

Growing pumpkin plants gives you a festive fall harvest. However, the vines may experience yellow leaves because of things like pests, diseases, or even genes.

A friend of mine told me she had some type of fast-growing grass in our flower beds that seemed to grow even more when she pulled it up. She was wondering what this grass was and how to control it.

Removal isn’t the only option for a big, old shrub that’s outgrowing its space or just not blooming well anymore. Many overgrown shrubs can be brought back into size and shape and even induced to ...