Some of my taller flowers last summer grew too tall and flopped over. Can I pinch these back next year to control height without losing flowers? Most types of annual and perennial flowers can be ...

Dear Master Gardener: I am interested in growing hot peppers so this year I purchased vegetable grow bags with handles, planted various types of hot peppers and placed the grow bags on my parent’s ...

Annual flowers are at their peak and we wish we could keep them blooming heavily all season long. We can help them along if we deadhead them faithfully. Some don't need it or it won't help if we do.

Pruning mums helps them grow fuller with longer-lasting blooms. Pinch tips at 4–6 inches tall, again at 12 inches tall, and stop about 100 days before bloom. Deadhead spent flowers once blooming ...

Taller growing perennials are nice additions to larger landscape beds and borders — until they flop over. This detracts from the plants beauty, the gardens appearance and flopping plants fall onto ...

All right! We are a week away from the traditional planting-out three-day weekend. Given the lateness of birch leaf opening, it may have sneaked up on many of you. The finally warm weather has helped ...

Hanging baskets, planter boxes and perennial gardens that are bursting with color are seldom planted in spring and left untouched until autumn. Deadheading, pruning, trimming and pinching are all ...

The Springfield News-Leader in Springfield, Missouri, partners with the Master Gardeners of Green County each week to bring readers a question-and-answer column with some of the expert horticulturists ...