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This is a good time of the year to feed your palm trees again. Remember to stay out away from the trunk of the tree when feeding, stay out on the drip line of the tree when feeding them. ( Where the water drips off the end of the fronds ) This is where...

NORFOLK THREE ITEMS do not convey: the chandelier in the foyer, in the library, in the formal powder room. If you fork over $1.35 million, though, you can have everything else. And there's plenty at 735 Yarmouth St. in Norfolk's Ghent: a gardener...

John Steinbeck crossed the country with Charley in 1960. I rode to Louisville last month, from Pennsylvania, with Rufus. Steinbeck, who wrote Travels with Charley, made the road trip with his standard poodle in a camper truck. I took Rufus home in a...

There are a number of ways to disfigure a crape myrtle shrub, that quintessentially southern belle of USDA Zones 7 and 8 gardens.  The most popular, by far, is murder by pruning. Mother Nature designed these colorful plants as shrubs.  That means they...

When designing your landscape, it’s important to balance large elements, such as shade trees and lawns, with small trees, shrubs and perennials. In addition to enhancing the aesthetics of scale and proportion, the smaller elements allow you to increase...