A colorful landscape is a thing of beauty to enjoy with your eyes. But it should also appeal to your other senses.

Take a walk through your landscape and evaluate your plants for their year round beauty and habitat for the birds. The second week in February is “National Homes for the Birds” week and a great time to look for ways to provide food, shelter and water for our feathered friends.

Celebrate National Apple month and prepare for Halloween by creating a few scary apple heads.

Brown buds that fail to open on peonies and some roses, especially the white and pink flowered varieties is usually the result of Botrytis blight also known as gray mold.

The answer to your tree problem may lie just below the surface, of the bark that is.

Extend the beauty and enjoyment of this year’s Mother’s Day bouquet. A few extra minutes spent caring for cut flowers can add days to your enjoyment.

June is National Rose Month. Celebrate by adding a few rose bushes to your perennial garden, shrub beds, and mixed borders.

Burn off a few calories and get ready for spring with a trip to the garden shed or garage.

Your clematis looks beautiful until suddenly the stems and leaves start turning black. Though it looks bad your clematis will survive.

Start this year’s garden pest control with a stroll through the landscape.

Your blue spruce is just reaching maturity when suddenly needles start turning a purplish brown and eventually the branch dies. The problem may be Cytospora canker.

Keep your flowers blooming longer and your garden tidier with a bit of deadheading.

Keep the flavor of your garden alive all year long. Pick and dry herbs for winter meals and holiday gifts.

Enjoy the beauty and fragrance of roses without all the work. Many of us have switched to hardier more pest resistant shrub roses for just this reason. But now, thanks to the Earth-Kind rose designation, growing roses will be easier for all.

Leafless crabapple trees are a common sight in summers following a cool wet spring. Start now to eliminate the problem next season.

Keep your peonies looking good and healthy with a bit of grooming.

A bit of fall cleanup can save time and energy controlling pests next season.

Create an outdoor fall container made of items harvested from your landscape.

A forsythia bloom in fall? It’s not as unusual as you think.

Don’t let hot dry summers damage or even kill your Pagoda dogwood. Proper care and a bit of pruning can keep them healthy.

Apples are the perfect fat free fruit for your diet and garden. Plant just a couple trees or a small orchard so you can harvest an apple-a-day right from your own backyard.

Don’t compost the top of your pineapple. Instead, use it to start an indoor garden with your favorite young or seasoned gardeners.

Apples are the perfect fat-free fruit for your diet and garden. Plant just a couple trees or a small orchard so you can harvest an apple-a-day right from your own backyard.

Make it fun and convenient to add some homegrown flavor to your cookouts. Grow a few herbs in a pot or garden right next to the grill.

Create a new plant from your favorite heirloom vine or shrub with layering. Try using this method with raspberries, climbing roses, forsythia, and jasmine.

Don’t sacrifice beauty for function when you can have both. Select long blooming shrubs that can screen bad views, create barriers and serve as the framework or a focal point in your landscape.

So you want to grow roses, but don’t want to fuss? Don’t worry - you can have beautiful roses with minimal care.

Don’t let a lack of space keep you from growing trees in your landscape. Consider planting columnar trees in containers and narrow spaces.

You purchase a beautiful pear, set it on the counter to ripen and a few days later take a bite. Seems it is either too hard or over ripe. In fact, 84% of people surveyed did not know how to tell when a pear was ripe.

Don’t let a little shade stop you from going native. A look at nearby shady natural areas and many of the new garden catalogs will provide lots of ideas.

Don’t let limited space stop you from growing your own apples. Give the new Urban Columnar Apples a try.

If your hybrid tea rose has stopped blooming or changed colors, a dead graft union may be the problem.

Round out your meals with some fresh from the garden fruit. It is easier than you think to grow your own apples, plums, and berries.

Whether you grew them yourself or visited a Pick-Your–Own farm, get the best flavor from your apples, pears and plums by harvesting them at the right time.

Ahhh the sweet smell of lilacs generate fond memories for many of us. Be sure to grow a few new memories in your garden this year.

Start new plants from your favorite heirloom grape, rose, trumpet creeper or other vine.

Take some time now to reduce insect and disease problems in next year’s garden.

Keep your plants looking good and be kind to the environment despite the risk of disease problems.

All your hard work on the lawn and landscape can be undone with a quick toss of deicing salt. A little care now will eliminate the frustration and time needed next spring to repair winter damaged plants.

Increase your harvest with proper pruning.

Get the family involved and look for fun, quick and easy ideas for decorating your Thanksgiving or fall dinner table.

As the snow recedes from the lawn break out the leaf rake and fluff up the grass.

Removing faded flowers can promote repeat bloom and more compact, healthier growth.

Nothing says Happy Valentine’s Day like a fresh bouquet of roses. And nothing is more disappointing than when the necks of those roses wilt and ruin the display.

Birds can add color and motion to your landscape year round. Planting shrubs that provide food and shelter is an easy and affordable way to bring birds into your backyard.

Keep your green thumbs busy starting new plants from kitchen scraps.

Extreme heat and cold, droughts and floods can leave our plants stressed and more susceptible to damaging borers.

Add a bit of greenery to your front steps, window box or patio with a winter container.

Help your roses through the winter and be rewarded with beautiful blooms next season.