“The problem with roses is that most of them have thorns.” “Too much of a good thing, yadda, yadda, yadda...” Pick your favorite idiom and I’ll show you a garden reference. How about, “The problem ...

Leaves have been browning and falling prematurely for weeks now due to late summer’s dry weather, but the real fall leaf drop will take hold in a few more weeks. Is the resulting blanketing of the ...

This is the time of year when Nicole Hughes gets constantly distracted by the fall foliage as she drives around North Carolina. "I'm always looking," says Hughes, a biologist at High Point University.

It's that time of the year again. The air has already started to turn crisp, and before we know it those brightly colored leaves will begin to fall and blanket yards across North Jersey. And while ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Don't wake up this fall with a yard covered in leaves and the wrong equipment to deal with them in your ...

Falling leaves in autumn are part of a tree's natural cycle of entering dormancy for the winter. Leaving fallen leaves in your yard provides crucial habitat for overwintering insects and amphibians.

The calendar has flipped from August to September, meaning fall is almost here and the leaves on your trees will soon begin to, well, fall. Experts for years have recommended that we leave the leaves ...

WHEN TO MULCH. THE LEAVES ARE NOW CHANGING COLOR AND FALLING, WHICH MEANS IT’S NOW TIME FOR EVERYONE’S FAVORITE THING. AND THAT’S, WELL, DEALING WITH THE LEAVES. THIS IS A BIT OF A DEBATED TOPIC, ...

For years I’ve been advising readers not to rake leaves. This advice initially was a result of my traveling to Asia one fall and discovering upon my return that all the leaves I didn’t rake that year ...