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Q: The stems of cherry laurel are turning white. It looks like mold or some sort of infection. Some leaves look OK while others have turned yellow or brown. Can I treat it? This actually isn’t fungal, ...

Cherry Laurel is in flower at present. Its flowers aren't very showy; they are very small and numerous, are off-white in colour and are arranged in flower-heads that are held upright like ...

Readers ask how they can tell whether they have toxic varieties of plants — or something more benign. Dear Helen: I took note of a recent Times Colonist article on the toxic, invasive Arum italicum ...

Before I was born, way back in 1950, one of my relatives by marriage who wasn’t asked to join the Junior League built the biggest house in town. An intuitive designer, she understood the concept of ...

PATIENCE is a virtue – especially when it comes to gardening. Growing things takes time – even annuals can take months to come to maturity, while at the other end of the scale it can take decades for ...