Lemon and Lime tree

QuestionHi Bakerplanter, I just had a very long conversation with Nick McCann, but he went on vacation. I need to know if I plant my Myer lemon tree near a Privet will those tiny flower thin

house flies from garden flowers?

QuestionHi, I had a container with petunias in the kitchen, until yesterday it was fine, all of a sudden my house has quite a few house flies flying around? could they be coming from the flowers? As I took the conta

Please help,rosemary is dried out

Questionhello,my name is Cory and i live in Twentynine palms ,California,(the desert)and i bought a rosemary plant 2 months ago -i repot it into a clay pot with pottingsoil and water every week or

Azalias

QuestionI have 2 Azalias I purchased. I live in zone 4 in Wisconsin. I was wondering can I put them in containers for the winter months. Or is it safe to leave them planted in the ground for the winter? AnswerAudre

turkey figs in containers

QuestionIm a college student @ UA and this past spring I plant some fruit bushes in containers. Since i dont plan on staying here permanently, i want to be able to transport my plant to a more permanent local in the

bonfire patio peach

QuestionI bought a dwarf bonfire patio peach tree and planted it in the ground. To my surprise, this tree has sprouted new branches and is now 7ft tall and with green leaves (with the exception of the original plant

corylines

QuestionIf my 6 year old cordylines are leggy but have beautiful growth on the top 2 feet, is there anyway to score the truck, wrap with moss and try to generate roots and obtain a shorter, vigorous plant? Answer

Kadota Fig in NJ - Container to Soil Bed

QuestionHi, I have always wanted to grow fig trees and have been reading voraciously. Have 2 3-yr. old kadota fig trees I just purchased in containers in late June; garden center said to put in ground in late Aug. T

systemic 2 or 3 in one

QuestionI live in the big bend are of Fla.hot & humid.Most all my planting is in containers.Mealybugs, spidermites,etc are destroying my efforts. All the 3 in one systemic say not for use in containers. Why?? Answe

Sky Pencil Holly

QuestionI am in zone 7 and I planted 3 sky pencil hollies a few weeks ago. The place where I bought them told me to not water them for a month after I planted them but I soon found that they were wrong. They started

dwarf peach tree . I think?

QuestionWe have a peach tree that is bearing fruit. We have had it for 2 years and havent pruned it before. There is a long stem that has taken over much of the tree coming from the trunk. A couple

dwarf patio peach

QuestionI have 2 dwarf patio peach trees which are full of fruit, are the fruit good to eat AnswerThe small Patio, and Dwarf peach trees are graphed onto a standard tree. The dwarf trees are taken from good eating

growing avacado trees

QuestionI have an avocado tree that I started bout a year or 2 ago from a seed center and the trunk is very thin and 4to 5tall, how do I prune it so the trunk of the tree will grow bigger AnswerTiming plays an impo

container pots

Questionmy neighbor did not water the pots for 4 days while i was away. She thought the irrigation system was enough as it rotated by them. I came back to find them barely living. I gave them plenty of water and the

Potted Hibiscus

QuestionI have several potted hibiscus which have bloomed beautifully for several years. This year there are few blooms on some and no blooms on the others. I read somewhere that potted hibiscus have a finite

peaches

QuestionQUESTION: Im haveing the same pro with my peaches, we bought this house and there is peaches already planted and ive used no pesticides and taken care of the, the 1st yr nothing and now i have peaches but th

Identifying a container plant

Question Unknown Plant I have not been able to find an expert in the subject of identifying plants and I was wondering if you would be able to help. I live in an apartment and I am limited to a container garden. I

Ficus Caricus Brown Turkey - Upstate New York New York

QuestionThis summer my mother bought me a brown turkey fig tree. We kept it in its original pot (2.3 qt) in a gated garden. It had plenty of sunlight and it was watered regularly, but the leaves were turning yell

patio peach trees in Tennessee

QuestionMy name is Antuan Smith and kind of have the same question as others about eating the peaches. I live in North East Tennessee and wanted to know how well they will ripen in our area. I know it has something

orchids

QuestionCan you help me identify this orchid? My grandmother had an orchid that someone gave her. The person she got it from said it was called a Ground Orchid but when I went to look it up I found out there are man