A muddy backyard with water pooling after rain - Katarzynabialasiewicz/Getty Images If you've ever struggled with a persistently wet yard or areas prone to standing water, you know how frustrating it ...

Many of us have places in our landscapes where it’s constantly wet. We always say “plants breathe through their roots”, which means that poorly drained sites are bad for most plants since air can’t ...

Very few plants look as good to me next to a body of water as does weeping willow, Salix babylonica. Something about the pendulous branches hanging downward and even touching the water while they sway ...

Purdue Landscape Report, What is Happening to the Weeping Willows?: While recent temperatures have been moderate in many parts of the state, rainfall has been lacking. (See The Annual Drought Article) ...

The cold, drizzly weather doesn’t get in the way of one of the first winter harvests at Horn Farm Center. The crop? Sticks. “What we’re looking for is the nice, straight, long rods,” Executive ...

The hard freeze of February 2021 killed the Texas Ebony tree (Ebenopsis ebano) in the xeriscape area of the Victoria Educational Gardens. While I waited to have the dead tree removed, I began ...