The gardenia (Gardenia spp) family encompasses a variety of plants ranging from flowers in containers to bushes and even trees. They grow best in Zones 8 through 11, although they can be grown in ...

Look around any Southern garden and you'll spot gardenias: those evergreen shrubs with snowy white flowers that release their sweet perfume all summer. Gardenia's glossy leaves tough it out in high ...

Q: I have two gardenia bushes that became huge this summer and definitely need to be cut way back. Is now a good time to cut them back? I don’t want to shock them but they’re right up against our ...

I had a gorgeous bottlebrush bush that was about 5 years old and stood about 8 to 10 feet high. After all the rain in July, two-thirds of the bush died. Now the rest is totally dead. I did not detect ...

Maybe today's change of pace will connect more broadly than politics. Maybe the late-winter arctic blast in Arkansas performed a hit-and-run on your gardenia bushes too. This is the parable of the ...