With wilder-looking gardens in style, heather makes a wonderful evergreen groundcover, providing glorious color from season ...

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Q. I have a problem with pruning the large heather plants in my garden. They really need to be cut back severely, but when I cut back into old wood that part of the… ...

For very specific information on how to divide your plants see: https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/mg108. Q: I seem to have a bumper crop of some kind of weed that is choking my lawn.

Heather is a difficult plant to grow in south-central Pennsylvania's climate and soil. In the right spot, it's a tough and beautiful little fine-leafed, lavender-blooming shrub.

Scientific name: Cuphea hyssopifolia. Growth habit: A rounded evergreen perennial growing to a foot tall and wide. The leaves are medium to dark green, elliptic in shape and growing to 1 inch long … ...