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Of all the affordable holiday decor, nothing is as cheap as harvesting the evergreen plants from your own backyard. Beyond ...

Pruning is usually thought of as a fall activity. However, the rules are a little different for evergreens. You have to be ...

It's easy and it's free. It's the best way to stretch your gardening budget. The easiest method is to root cuttings in jars of water. This works for coleus, bloodleaf, cuphea, plectranthus and sweet ...

One of several boxwoods I planted in a group this spring is turning brown and looking bad. The rest are doing fine. What could be the problem and what can I do to save it? There are several things ...

One of gardening’s best secrets is that it’s fairly easy to produce your own free new plants by persuading cut branch tips to grow roots. A surprising number of trees, shrubs, evergreens, roses, fruit ...

An invasive pest is targeting boxwood shrubs, and it has now been detected for the first time in Virginia. Box tree moth caterpillars feed directly on the leaves of boxwood shrubs and can completely ...

The boxwood plant on the left is healthy, green and web-free. The boxwood plant on the right is dead or dying from box tree moth caterpillar damage. The invasive caterpillars feed on the foliage and ...

CINCINNATI — An invasive pest has arrived in Cincinnati and is starting to kill boxwood shrubs around the Tri-State, threatening one of the most popular landscaping plants in the region. The box tree ...

Q: I heard about a new boxwood problem in our area. What should I be looking for? Box tree moth (BTM), an insect native to eastern Asia that feeds on boxwood in its caterpillar stage, was first ...

WASHINGTON — Similar to the spotted lanternfly, the box tree moth is a non-native species that originated in Asia. It's believed to have made its way to Germany in 2007 through shipments of ornamental ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) has confirmed the detection of a new invasive insect in the Commonwealth: the box tree moth. Inspectors ...