My Meyers have flowers but no leaves??

QuestionHello, I purchased a dwarf meyers lemon from my local nursery last spring.(I am a novice gardner via being a first time homeowner.) When I bought it, it had fruit and leaves and was about 3 feet tall

Lilac bush not budding

QuestionI have a 15+ year fragrant violet lilac bush in Toronto, Ontario which this year has not started to show leaf growth. I thought the problem had to do with the dry summer and winter that we had, so I have bee

root removal

QuestionIm from Wisconsin and Ive cut my shrubs/bushes in the front of my house recently. Now I need to remove the roots. What is the easiest way of doing this without breaking my back trying to dig them out? Answe

transplanting a tree

QuestionHi, I start a red maple from a seedling. It is now about 3 ft tall and has been in its current location for 2 years. We would like to move it to a place that has opened up with more space. The man that cuts

Creating a fence with shrubs

QuestionHi, I live in NJ. I want to create a fence on my property line where they are building a new house. I want to put some kind of shrub that will grow in a cylindracal shape that I can trim when it gets about 4

Whats holding it back???

QuestionI have 4 crepe myrtle trees that I transplanted last Fall. All are about 6ft tall. About three weeks ago, three of them started to leaf out, but the fourth is doing nothing. It appears to be alive, sin

shrubs that can grow on a hill

QuestionI would like to know what shrubs or flowers could grow on a hill. The hill is about 4 ft high with mulch on it. I previous had these green pines that were ground huggers. I wanted something

trimming aborvitaes to show off stone wall

QuestionWe have a beautiful stone wall about 4 high behind our house.[approx. 10 back from our house. Our neighbor is appox. 10 back from the wall on the other side!] We were looking to plant aborvitaes along part o

infestation?

QuestionI have been pruning some unknown shrubs in my front yard. There is what looks like white mold and thousands of tiny maggot looking eggs? on the leaves. Do you know what those things could be? AnswerJames, T

Lilac isnt blooming

QuestionI planted a gallon lilac 3 or possibly 4 years ago. The tree/shrub is at least 6 feet high and has never bloomed. It is planted on the west side of our property--and on the other side of the fence is a lilac

emerald green arborvita

QuestionWe planted our arborvitas last spring. They seemed to be doing well untill now. Some of the trees have started to wilt on one side of plant about a week ago I noticed. Now one of the trees are tu

srub dying after transplant

Questioni moved into a house in the mid-north of nj about 2.5 yrs ago. there are 4 beautiful full green srubs in the backyard. the srubs are all the same, i dont know what theyre called so ill try to describe them a

dwarf winged euonymus

QuestionHi Ed! We just moved into a new house and we have 3 dwarf winged euonymus shrubs in the front of our house and they get a lot of sun. We live in CT. They are growing very tall and blocking part of our

moving a camelia

Questioni have a large camelia in my garden, it is 7 feet tall and 6 feet wide. i would like to move it to a different position, but am afraid that moving it would kill it. do you think it would be okay

lilac blooms

QuestionI bought a lilac bush less than a month ago at a nursery. I bought the Sensation variety because of the dark purple/white color combination. I read that the true color may not appear until maturity and right

What IS this plant???

QuestionHi. I live in Eastern North Carolina and I am proud to say that I have self-taught myself quite a bit about plants over the past couple of years. I LOVE PLANTS!! Fortunately, I have 4 1/2 a

rose of sharon & flame tree

Questioni am not sure of the age but i do know that it is about four feet tall and it is wickedly thin, i know i need to prune it but not really sure how? honestly i am trying to learn but so far all i know is what

Removing shrubs for deck addition

QuestionI am putting a deck on the front of my home and need to remove some shrubs (2 arborvites, 1 spirea and another (unsure of what it is). They are currently in rocked landscaping and the deck will s

Deodar Cedar turning brown at tips

QuestionI live in Wake Forest, NC, outside of Raleigh, Zone 7. Three years ago we planted a Deodar Cedar in front of our house, western exposure, full sun. It had done wonderfully and is a beautiful spec

black patches on emerald cedars

QuestionI live on the west coast of British Columbia and last spring we planted a hedge of emerald cedars. With the onset of spring, all of the shrubs are full of new growth on the tips of the branches.