Having a fruit tree in your yard is the gift that keeps on giving. Every year, you can enjoy its edible bounty — it always ...

I guess I have been a bit cavalier in my approach to wrapping banana trees. My habit has been to simply wrap some newspapers around the trunk and then some plastic around the newspapers for winter ...

Last year was the perfect storm for evergreen trees. Drought-like conditions in the summer and fall shifted into a particularly cold and windy winter, and many arborvitaes, spruce and yews got a stiff ...

I’ve always found it a little ironic that the solution to preventing a cedar from turning brown is to cloak it in brown burlap. But I get why people want to wrap them up. Those who wrap reason that ...

Some kinds of shrubs are especially vulnerable to winter, and gardeners often try to protect them with sheets of burlap. Before you do, “make sure it’s really necessary,” said Julie Janoski, Plant ...

With memories of boxwoods ravaged by last January’s bitter cold spell, many gardeners are trying to protect shrubs this winter by wrapping them in burlap. “That can do more harm than good,” said Julie ...