Zinnias bring a yard to life with their vibrant colors – from hot pinks and bright reds to lime greens. But if you want as many flowers as possible from these tough plants (don't we all?), you need to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s how to keep your mums healthy so they return next year. Deadheading mums encourages root growth and increases the chance of the plant returning next year by preventing seed formation. Plant ...

Plant pinching allows you to stimulate growth and encourage early bushiness, more rapidly, by removing the tip of the plant. Ever wonder why the plants you raised from when they were small don’t often ...

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 ...

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 ...