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Skylight Installation
Putting in a skylight ranks as one of the more difficult home improvement jobs. It involves working on the roof, which can be dangerous, especially while maneuvering a heavy skylight. Moreover, you...
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When to Prune a Weeping Cherry
Weeping cherry trees provide shade throughout the year and a banquet of color when their flowers are in bloom. To ensure that the crown branches of the trees remain strong, pruning is needed to remove...
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How to Grow a Beech Tree
A beech tree (Fagus grandifolia) brings many kinds of beauty: silver bark, a straight trunk and golden leaves in fall. In bloom, the tree looks like small fireworks are exploding over its canopy. The...
View ArticleAbout Purple Robe Trees
"Purple Robe" black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia "Purple Robe") can grow in some of the most difficult conditions and on a variety of sites. The tree reaches 30 to 50 feet tall at maturity, and its...
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How Often Should You Water Gardenia?
More than 200 species of gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides), featuring snow-white flowers on lush green foliage, grow in Mediterranean climates, including U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness...
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Why People Regret Installing In-Ground Pools
It’s only natural that summertime fun overshadows reality when a homeowner decides to install an in-ground pool. Splashing in cool water, getting much-needed exercise and lounging the sun are enticing...
View ArticleWhat Is Impatiens Glandulifera?
Also known as jewelweed, Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera) is a fast-growing annual herb characterized by hollow reddish stems, serrated leaves and five-petaled flowers, which may be white,...
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Fescue Diseases
Tall fescue (Festuca arundinarcea), hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 2 through 7, is a very common lawn grass which is also used for livestock forage. This grass is...
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Yellow Leaves on a Pineapple
Pineapple plants (Ananas comosus) are herbaceous perennials that are prized for their sweet fruit. They are hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 10 through 11 and are drought...
View ArticleWhat Is an Inga Bean?
Inga bean (Inga edulis) is more commonly known as the ice cream bean tree because the fruit tastes like vanilla ice cream. Reaching up to 60 feet tall, this member of the legume family grows quickly...
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Soil Composting With Cedar Chips
Soil, or "plain ol' dirt," is such a familiar presence that it's seldom given much thought by nonspecialists. In truth, topsoil is an intricately complex ecosystem populated by huge numbers of...
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What Conditions Do You Need to Grow Rice, Wheat, Corn & Soybeans?
Grains and legume crops are cultivated throughout the world in every imaginable growing condition, from tropical swamplands to arid deserts. Rice (Oryza spp.), wheat (Triticum spp.), corn (Zea mays)...
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The Brown Bumps on an Orchid
If your orchid’s glossy, green leaves or usually immaculate flowers have suddenly sprouted unsightly brown bumps, it’s time for action. You’re looking at one of two possible culprits, and treating the...
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Techniques for How to Start a Gas-Powered Mower
It's simple to forget, after wearing out your arm in a futile attempt to start your gasoline-powered lawnmower, that such machines are designed to start easily. If yours won't start, it isn't just...
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Will Lisianthus Grow Indoors?
Lisianthus (Eustoma grandiflorum) flowers provide beauty and staying power in fresh flower arrangements, lasting two to three weeks after cutting. Native to the Midwestern and Southwestern prairies,...
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Alternatives to a French Drain
French drains redirect water from one area of your landscape to another to prevent waterlogged soil and erosion. Homeowners often connect them directly to a downspout to prevent waterlogged soil around...
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Shrubs That Grow in Marshes
Various landscapes present themselves in nature and, unsurprisingly, each supports a wide variety of life, including plants. Marshes, defined as areas of low-lying land that frequently flood and...
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Does Hot Weather & a Lot of Rain Cause My Peppers to Wilt?
Peppers (Capsicum annuum) are tender perennials, native to South America. While the plants thrive in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 9 through 11, they're frost-tender and normally...
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How to Eliminate an Inground Pool
While many homeowners see inground pools as a luxury, others consider them nothing more than a headache. Not only do these pools require regular maintenance, but they can also serve as a potential...
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My Riding Lawn Mower Cuts Off When the Clutch-Brake Is Released
Riding mowers, whether compact riders, garden tractors or zero-turn machines, have starting mechanisms to crank the piston that turns the crankshaft that turns the wheels and drives the cutting blade....
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