This weekend's yard jobs include considering a new option on how to keep deer from eating landscape plant, controlling weeds, ...

The flowers are insect pollinated, and various thistle species are widely known as important food sources for butterflies, as well as bees.

The autumn garden can be as colourful as the summer one, but it’s not only the brilliance of flowering plants like rudbeckia ...

Many widely-grown trees are not fit for our changing climate. Hazel Sillver details 17 stunning trees that can handle extreme ...

A number of specialty crops, including Asian vegetables, are farmed on very small acreages in the San Joaquin Valley.

Taro: rawpixel.com (Creative Commons license); daikon: Modesto Bee file; chilis: Fresno Bee file Agriculture throughout the San Joaquin Valley is dominated by big ... broad leaves of the taro ...

A surfactant or spreader-sticker must be added to many of these herbicides to allow it to stick to the plant’s leaves. Read the label and check with your local or online retailer to select a ...

Loved for its big, bold foliage, tropical plants will help you achieve a lush, colourful garden scheme that not only provides ...

This encourages more flowers. Cutting dahlia stems just above the leaf node means you’ll get more growth. Nodes are where most of the plant’s best healing and growing tissue lives. In winter you can ...

A flash of brilliant red-purple ... Its leaves are dark green, long and pointed, and with saw-tooth margins, and a bit hairy. As with all the members of the aster family, this plant has its ...

Big W has overhauled its basics range — including jeans, basic tees, activewear and linen blends — after 18 months of taking on extensive customer, industry and quality research. All together ...