Sophora secundiflora (Texas mountain laurel) is a wonderful evergreen shrub which breaks forth in February and March with showy purple blossoms whimsically smelling like grape bubblegum or perhaps ...
End of winter is the best time of year to prune shrubs that flower later in the growing season, i.e. from mid-June and after. The reason is that later-flowering shrubs bloom on “new wood.” This means ...
A. This plant flowers on old wood, so prune immediately after spring bloom to avoid losing next year's flowers. Kathy Huber has worked for the Houston Chronicle since May 1981. She was Features Copy ...
Q. I can't figure out what happened to my Texas mountain laurel. It is 6 years old, and I've tried to train it to be a small tree. This spring, however, a big portion of it turned brown. Should I ...
WELCOME TO TODAY’S GROWING GREEN. WE’RE AT THE HOME OF HENRY HOMEIER IN CORNISH. I’M JOINED BY STEPH CIESZYNSKI OF UNH COOPERATIVE EXTENSION AND STEPH, WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT ONE OF MY FAVORITE ...