By JIMMY ROGERS Each year, April surprises and delights me. A fresh flush of rich foliage replaces the tired, semi-evergreen leaves of winter. Blue, pink, red, purple and yellow flowers decorate the whole...

By: Angie Latham Kozlowski Laurel gained its first urban farm last year when Kellie Cox, horticulturist and owner of  Strawberry Fields, a landscape design and installation company based in Silver Spring,...

By Lila Stiff While there is little yard work to do between November and February, I love gearing up for the coming growing season. Tucked inside, I burrow into gardening books, peruse seed catalogs,...

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, When I was in Arizona last spring to visit a friend who retired there, I was simply blown away by a dazzling display of amaryllis blooming in her garden. She told me she gets gifts...

Dear Miss Floribunda, I am seven years old. My daddy is helping me with this because I can't spell many words and he says I ask too many questions he can't answer. I like bees. I like to watch them...

Dear Miss Floribunda, Not many of my annual seedlings survived our unusually hot, dry May, and the spring perennials have died back or look shabby. I am not doing much about weeds because they at least...

BY SCARLETT SALEM — Just in time for spring gardening, the Hyattsville Elementary School Parent Teacher Association (PTA) held their 6th Annual Native Plant Sale on Saturday, May 16 at Hyattsville Elementary...

Dear Miss Floribunda, I've lived and gardened in Hyattsville nearly three years now, and I feel like such a loser. My yard wasn't landscaped by the previous owners and I think it is because nothing but...

BY REBECCA BENNETT — With temperatures nearing 70 degrees this past weekend, it was a fine time to get outside and see all the signs that spring is budding in Hyattsville.

Dear Miss Floribunda, It's April 1st and my February Gold daffodils are finally blooming. I haven't dared do my March pruning because, as you suggest, I’m waiting until my forsythia is in bloom. Now...