Looking for ways to encourage your phlox plants to produce healthy, big blooms in the spring? Start with pruning at the right time each year.

Creeping phlox is a beautiful groundcover that doesn't need a whole lot of care. Cutting it back in fall can be helpful, ...

Phlox, (sounds like “flocks”) originating mostly in North America, belongs to a genus of about 70 species that are known as the “backbone” of the perennial border, adding color and fragrance to the ...

Now that we’ve finally gotten some decent amounts of rain the outside world is looking green and, in some places, almost lush. We’re still not even with normal rainfall amounts for the year, but we’re ...

A: Tracy DiSabato-Aust, a well-regarded author and horticulturist from central Ohio, recommends cutting Phlox paniculata back by one-half before it flowers, when the plant reaches 16 to 24 inches in ...

Summer has faded and gone. Autumn’s bright foliage does compensate — somewhat— for the dearth of flowers. But a few of my trees and shrubs (and several perennials) bloom in October, and I treasure ...

Q: I learned that a black gum tree was one of the Oklahoma Proven selections this year. Would it make a good yard tree? Alan, Bixby A: Oklahoma Proven (OP) plant selections are published yearly in the ...

QI have a large maple tree in my back yard with a branch span of maybe 40 feet. It has a fair amount of above-ground roots. Am I safe covering up some of the roots to make the ground even to plant ...