I am doing some tree planting at home and wanted a recommendation on what to use to amend the soil that I fill the planting hole with to give the trees a good start. My garden has a heavy clay loam ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - At Akin’s Nursery in Shreveport, owner Jennifer McGimsey says one of the biggest challenges local gardeners face is right under their feet: Northwest Louisiana’s heavy clay soil.

I bought three of the same trees last year. All three bloomed this spring, but later one developed some dead limbs. Now the rest of the tree is wilting and dying. There are no signs of bugs, holes in ...

After we installed our landscapes at Rogers Gardens back in the 1980s, my job involved the "maintenance period." It extended at least thirty days after the notice of completion. This period is to ...