CORVALLIS - Is your camellia bush looking a little bedraggled? Some older plants are so full of leaves and thin branches that they bear poor quality flowers. Others carry leaves burned by winter wind ...

Gardeners respect the seasonality of gardening, and we schedule seasonal topics for this column. If you have – or plan to have – Camellias in your garden, about now is when their blooms fade, and the ...

January is a highly beneficial time to prune trees and shrubs because this is the dormant period for many plants in coastal California. This column provides specific recommendations for the Monterey ...

Don't risk winter damage that can kill your plants.

️ Some plants can be pruned now. Big leaf hydrangeas can be cut back — while I have seen a few plants with leaves growing on old wood, most are sprouting from the base, so cut out the old, dead canes ...

Yes, the extra-cold weather has been hard on the garden, but it is best now to be patient. Do not prune back frost damage until March. Mother Nature often stages amazing comebacks. Plus, if another ...

Camellias are perhaps our best loved winter bloomer, cheering up many a grey winter day. But often gardeners wonder why next door’s camellia is covered with blooms, while their’s rarely has a flower, ...