Winter is here, thus giving gardeners plenty of time to plan for the upcoming months and specific maintenance activities.

Q: I planted a new rose this spring and it has produced many nice blooms since then. However, a bud opened recently revealing a flower that had a small branch growing out of the middle of the new ...

In my several decades of writing for the Star Telegram my recommendations and suggestions have been fine-tuned and tailored many times over. Put in other words, I’ve learned some important lessons.

Beneath the petals is a whole drama of disease, survival and clever design. Follow the fight against rose rosette virus, the beetles that sleep inside heated, pineapple-scented water lily flowers, and ...

TYLER, Texas — The Texas Rose Horse Park in Tyler announced it has temporarily shut down all horse events at the facility immediately until Dec. 2 due to an outbreak of an equine virus linked to an ...

For years scientists have suspected that the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)—a type of herpesvirus that infects 94 percent of the global population by adulthood and causes mononucleosis (aka “mono”)—might be ...

Dear Neil: We have star jasmine, coral honeysuckle, and Peggy Martin rose plants in our landscape. All have bloomed beautifully through this season, but now the plants are turning yellow. I fear that ...

DEAR NEIL: Attached are photos of my Knock Out roses. They look awful. I’ve been told there is a disease that will kill them, and that it will stay in the soil – that new Knock Outs can never be ...

Q: We have star jasmine, coral honeysuckle, and Peggy Martin rose plants in our landscape. All have bloomed beautifully through this season, but now the plants are turning yellow. I fear that I might ...