Lawns

Selection

• Growing Bermuda
  
• Growing Bluegrass
  
• Growing Buffalograss
  
• Growing Tall Fescue
  
• Growing Zoysia
  
• Purchasing Grass Seed
  
• Recommended Bluegrass Varieties
  
• Recommended Tall Fescue Varieties

Culture

• Aerating Your Lawn
  
• De-thatching a Lawn
  
• Establishing a Warm Season Lawn
  
• Fertilizing Your Bluegrass, Fescue, and Ryegrass Lawn
  
• Fertilizing Your Zoysia Grass and Bermuda Grass Lawn
  
• Growing Grass in the Shade
  
• Mowing Your Lawn
  
• Overseeding Cool-Season Lawns
  
• Seeding a Home Lawn
  
• Sodding a Home Lawn
  
• Soil pH and Liming
  
• Watering Your Lawn

Insects, Disease and Other Problems

• Bluegrass Sod Webworms
  
• Brown Patch of Tall Fescue
  
• Chinch Bugs
  
• Dog Urine Injury
  
• Dollar Spot
  
• Grubs
  
• Large Patch on Zoysia
  
• Leaf Spot on Turfgrasses
  
• Moss in Lawn
  
• Mushrooms in Lawns
  
• Powdery Mildew
  
• Rust on Lawns
  
• Slime Mold
  
• Summer Patch of Bluegrass

Weed Control

• Choosing a Herbicide
  
• Controlling Nutsedge
  
• Controlling Violets
  
• Controlling Zoysia
  
• Crabgrass and Annual Grassy Weeds
  
• Dandelions
  
• Henbit and Chickweed
  
• Safety with Lawn Herbicides
  
• Tips to a Weed Free Lawn

Additional Lawn Facts

• Calibrating an Irrigation System
  
• Guidelines for Diagnosing Lawn Problems
  
• Recycling Grass Clippings
  
• Selecting a Lawn Service
  
• Soil Testing and Sampling

Flowers

Culture

• Cutting and Preparing Flowers for Arrangements
  
• Fertilizing Flower Gardens
  
• Mulching for Summer Care
  
• Mulching Perennials for Winter Protections
  
• Removing Spent Flowers/Deadheading
  
• Soil Preparation
  
• Watering the Flower Garden

Annuals

• Annuals for Shade
  
• Annuals for Sun
  
• Care of Hanging Baskets
  
• Designing and Planting Containers
  
• Drought-Tolerant Annuals
  
• Geraniums, Saving Over the Winter
  
• Planting Annuals
  
• Selecting Healthy Bedding Plants

Perennials

• Dividing Iris
  
• Dividing Perennials
  
• Drought-resistant Perennials
  
• General Iris Information
  
• Iris Culture and Planting
  
• Peonies
  
• Peony Culture
  
• Peony Diseases
  
• Peony Planting
  
• Perennial for Shade
  
• Perennial Garden Design
  
• Perennials for Sun
  
• Planting Bare Root Perennials
  
• Planting Container Grown Perennials
  
• Putting the Perennial Garden to Bed
  
• Selecting Healthy Perennials

Roses

• Bacterial Diseases of Roses
  
• Choosing a Site For a Rose Garden
  
• Fertilizing Roses
  
• Fungal Diseases of Roses
  
• Insect Enemies of Roses
  
• Insect Friends of Roses
  
• Mulching Roses
  
• Planting Roses
  
• Preparing for Winter
  
• Pruning Climbers, Shrubs, Old Garden Miniatures
  
• Pruning Hybrid Teas, Floribundas, and Grandifloras
  
• Rose Classifications
  
• Rose Pruning - Getting Started
  
• Viral Diseases of Roses
  
• Watering Roses
  
• Winterizing Roses

Vines

Clematis

• Basic Clematis Pruning
  
• Planting Clematis
  
• Selecting Clematis

Backyard Wildlife

• Attracting and Feeding Hummingbirds
  
• Creating a Butterfly Garden
  
• Developing a Backyard Wildlife Habitat
  
• Monarch Migration
  
• Preventing Wildlife Problems in Buildings

Trees & Shrubs

Selection

• Flowering Crabapple Varieties
  
• Flowering Trees in the Landscape
  
• Proper Shade Tree Placement
  
• Selecting Evergreen Trees
  
• Selecting Shade Trees
  
• Trees and Shrubs for Shade
  
• Trees to Avoid

Planting and Culture

• Dangers of Topping a Tree
  
• Fertilizing Trees
  
• How to Select a Tree Service
  
• Mulching Trees
  
• Planting Trees
  
• Protecting Trees During Construction
  
• Protecting Young Trees
  
• Pruning Flowering Trees
  
• Pruning Trees At Planting
  
• Staking
  
• Watering

Diseases

• Anthracnose on Trees
  
• Apple Scab
  
• Cedar Apple Rust on Crabapples
  
• Cedar Apple Rust on Juniper
  
• Cytospora Canker of Spruce
  
• Dothistroma Needle Blight
  
• Dutch Elm Disease
  
• Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
  
• Kabatina Tip Blight
  
• Oak Wilt
  
• Phomopsis Tip Blight
  
• Pine Wilt
  
• Powdery Mildew on Lilac
  
• Recognizing Deciduous Tree and Recognizing Evergreen Diseases
  
• Recognizing Deciduous Tree and Rhizosparea Needle Cast of Spruce
  
• Recognizing Deciduous Tree and Shrub Diseases
  
• Sphaeropsis Tip Blight
  
• Verticillium Wilt in Maples

Insects

• Aphids
  
• Bagworms
  
• Borers
  
• Euonymus Scale
  
• Galls
  
• Honeysuckle Aphid
  
• Lilac Borer
  
• Mites on Burning Bush
  
• Pine Needle Scale
  
• Pine Sawfly
  
• Scale
  
• Spider Mites
  
• Webworms

Environmental and Physical Problems

• Black Walnut Toxicity
  
• Cracks in the Trunk, Sun Scald
  
• Helping Trees Recover from Construction Injury
  
• Leaf Scorch
  
• Preventing Trees from Fruiting
  
• Protecting Tree Trunks from Damage
  
• Repairing Storm Damage
  
• Salt Injury
  
• Seasonal Needle Drop on Pines
  
• Spring Freezes
  
• Twig Drop of Trees
  
• When Lightning Strikes
  
• Woodpecker Damage
  
• Yellow Leaves, Iron Chlorosis