Dear Miss Floribunda, I have been growing strawberries for four years now and have learned from mistakes I made the first year. I learned to water regularly and to add a lot of compost to improve drainage....

Dear Miss Floribunda, I’ll bet it makes you cringe to receive yet another complaint about deer in the garden. This time, I am going to beg you not to even mention any of the solutions that I don’t...

Dear Miss Floribunda, The lot between my neighbor’s house and mine, which used to be a kind of community garden for three families, has been sold and will have a house built on it. My backyard is...

Dear Miss Floribunda, Is it possible for a native plant to get a weird disease like the one you wrote about for roses last month? My coneflowers have developed something that looks a little like the...

Dear Miss Floribunda,  Several of my rose bushes have gotten RRD (Rose Rosette Disease), and I have dug them up and put them in black plastic bags for trash pickup just as you’ve previously advised....

Dear Miss Floribunda,   After bringing in my gawky potted plants for the winter, I realize I don’t much like any of them. I won’t name them for fear of being guilty of plant-shaming, but let’s...

Dear Miss Floribunda,   Where can I find real mistletoe? Although I’m aware that, in this time of pandemic, it isn’t a good idea to encourage kissing by hanging it over entry ways, I don’t...

Dear Miss Floribunda,  The drought seems to be over, and autumn is finally here, with trees in full color. I am hearing different opinions about whether dry weather or wet weather makes for more beautiful...

Dear Miss Floribunda, I was really appalled by the insults from neighbors that "Eating Dirt" described in last month's letter. While my very polite neighbors have been wonderful to me, a life-long resident...

Dear Miss Floribunda, Although my neighbors say they approve of my native-plant garden because it provides a haven for pollinating insects, birds and other creatures, they have made some snarky little...

I'm at my wit's end. I've got this dippy neighbor whose garden is just a mess of weeds, and it attracts all kinds of nasty things. Well, some are nice butterflies, but others look like bees and wasps and...

Dear Miss Floribunda, I know where you live! Now that I have your attention, I want you to know this is not a threat. But I do know where you live because someone pointed your yard out to me, and I also...