Many trees in the woods are still bent over from the heavy and substantial snowfall that we received in December. Thanks to that and the following record-setting snowy winter, these trees, plus the ...

BOSTON - It's hard to not notice the early signs of spring in the middle of winter, but is this too much too soon? You may notice some early blooming flowers like crocuses, eranthis and witch hazel ...

I’ve heard from a few gardeners this season, asking about what’s happening to their flower buds. The damage, at first, seems like it may be rabbits, deer or groundhogs nibbling off the flower buds ...

These striking, “old-wood bloomers” come in hundreds of varieties. They can be grown as multi-stem shrubs or single-trunk trees. Magnolias offer us gardeners some spectacular options for our Pacific ...

I was out in the garden pruning last Saturday and took the opportunity to save some magnolia branches with flower buds to bring inside. It’s a tree that I have not tried forcing branches from before, ...

Due to the extra warm winter we've had this year, it’s been a good spring for forsythia. There are loads of yellow flowers on forsythia shrubs all around our area. You may have noticed some bushes ...