You’ve watered, fertilized, and given your plants plenty of sunshine—yet something still feels off. Growth is slow, roots seem cramped, and your once-thriving greenery looks like it’s hit a wall. The ...

Tree roots had become an issue at The Peninsula Club. They were growing into playing surfaces and causing turf decline because tree roots outcompete turf roots for water and nutrients. Additionally, ...

Face it, it happens at least once in our gardening lives: The plant we thought would be perfect here really would look better there. So, if this is your dilemma, there is a tried-and-true method for ...

SINCE JANUARY IS almost over, and it starts the year off with that extra 31st day, how about I sneak in one more “extra” article about pruning? I do this in response to a client who was asking about ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Tree root systems are seldom on the minds of forest owners, tree planters, ...

LET’S REVIEW A perfect and a little-known method which is totally appropriate now in the month of October. I have numerous times explained, and rightly so, how pruning at the wrong time of year can ...