Q: My Sonic Bloom weigela gets some dead-looking branches every year. I usually cut them below the dead leaves. I have already cut out a lot. Should I, or is this normal leaf drop? It has had the ...

Why settle for a shrub that blooms for just a few weeks in spring when you can get one that blooms both spring and fall — and maybe a bit in between? That’s been the aim of plant breeders in the last ...

Our recent hard rain knocked the petals off every single tiger lily in my garden. Other later-blooming lilies are weathering our weather. I also noticed the “Sonic Bloom Pearl” reblooming weigela is ...

Did you see plants blooming this fall when you didn’t expect it? “Some of them were bred to do that,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge specialist in the Plant Clinic at The Morton Arboretum. “And ...

Garden writers tend to wax poetic about the beauty of lilacs, dogwoods, forsythias, spireas and other fresh, spring charmers — and toss in a few "ohs-and-ahs" for daffodils and tulips. All of these ...