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, Like last month’s working mom, I don’t have a lot of time for gardening, and I don’t know how long I’m going to be staying in my house, so I am not going to build up a long-term...

Dear Miss Floribunda, Last year I had earthworms in my garden, and this year I don’t. My family and I moved into a house with a backyard veggie patch, and I decided to put in some tomato and bean plants,...

Dear Miss Floribunda, I moved to this area from the Pacific Northwest (Washington) three years ago. I have tried but failed to grow my favorite flowers for two of those years. Because I adore the color...

Dear Miss Floribunda, Last year, not much of what I planted in the spring survived a summer my neighbors and I called Death Valley Days. I watered often, but it was an ordeal for me and didn’t save...

Dear Miss Floribunda,                                                                                                                       ...

Dear Miss Floribunda, I am curious about what I've heard termed “heirloom” seeds. What does this mean other than they come from obsolete varieties that somehow got passed down? Is there any reason...

Dear Miss Floribunda, I was just looking on the Hyattsville Horticultural Society website and saw pictures of beautiful wreaths made at your workshop in November. Unfortunately, I had a conflict that...