To many gardeners, January is shopping season. Every day, it seems, we find a new seed or plant catalog in our mailboxes (both snail and e-mail). These catalogs offer a wealth of information on all ...

Plants come in all shapes and sizes, allowing them to fit into unique niches in the landscape, but they can be quite complex organisms. In order to select the most appropriate plants for a given ...

I received some bare root trees and shrubs as a gift and would like to know how to plant and care for them. — Jerry Rosen, Skokie That sounds like a great gift, just ahead of the growing season. Bare ...

Roots are one of the most vital parts of a plant’s system. They are what anchors the entire plant to the earth, bad roots equal a bad plant. Without roots a plant cannot support itself. Without roots ...

The extra time and effort spent on proper tree planting is a small investment for the long dividends paid by a tree in the garden.

Bare root planting is the easiest and most cost-effective way to plant trees and shrubs. Pictured above is witch hazel, bare root on left and with container on right. Photo courtesy of Turnbull ...