As the air cools and leaves start to tumble, gardeners everywhere begin their fall rituals—raking, pruning, and tucking their ...

Fall is the perfect time to give your perennials a bit of TLC. From pruning to digging up tubers, the weeks leading up to ...

With daylight hours dwindling, we are reminded of this quote from Nathaniel Hawthorne: “I cannot endure to waste anything so ...

Henry Homeyer says it is important to clean up the vegetable garden now in order to avoid overwintering diseases.

Removing every dormant perennial plant stem and seed head strips the garden of its structure and beauty. They also gather ...

The brilliant fall foliage has made its way to the ground thanks to gravity, wind and rain, and now comes the time when gardeners and homeowners need to determine how they will clean up, dispose of, ...

Many perennials may have withered so much this autumn that their leaves and stems have turned brown and crispy.

When we bag up and haul our fallen leaves to the curb for disposal, we’re also helping to dispose of next year’s pollinators ...

Clean-up is an essential fall chore, but what it means — and how much you should actually do — has shifted in recent years.

Mulching protects perennials from cold temperatures and helps maintain moisture. But this common mistake could kill your ...

I have a lot of sidewalk foot traffic and last fall I let folks crush the fallen leaves. Then I blew the leaf bits onto the lawn as mulch. The leaves are from the old trees in the residential downtown ...