If you live in the warmer regions of the country (USDA Zones 8-11) you can grow gardenias outdoors where they're easier to maintain. Growing gardenias indoors during cold weather is where it gets ...

Q: My gardenia leaves are getting yellow instead of green. What does it need? I put coffee grounds around the plant. Is this good for the plant or does it need to go into a pot? A: Plant uptake of ...

Watering too seldom or watering too frequently can cause gardenia leaves to yellow and drop. (NOLA.com|The Times-Picayune archive) QUESTION: I have a gardenia growing in a container that was trained ...

Yellow leaves can be an ambiguous symptom in plants. Like a fever in humans, yellowing leaves often indicate a health problem, but there are so many causes that the symptom doesn't indicate exactly ...

A little yellowing is normal on most plants during the growing season. When deciduous leaves turn yellow in autumn, the slowing down of the production of chlorophyll -- the green pigment plant cells ...

This spring you might want to add some fragrance to your landscape. Though we often think of planting the tropical plumeria outside our windows to waft its sweet aroma into our homes, several ...

“Aimee” patio tree as a 90th birthday gift and have had it on my deck for a month now. It’s getting northern exposure near a small lake in the Chicagoland area. I am following directions to a “T” and ...

DEAR JESSICA: I was a little confused after reading your Feb. 16 column about hardening off hibiscus plants. We have a hibiscus that stays in our greenhouse over the winter, and it gets put out in the ...