If your plant is growing poorly or appears in bad shape, you may wonder if it's dead or dormant. Dormant plants are still living and should be left in place—they're just conserving energy in their off ...

However, plants native to the tropics can suffer even when nighttime lows dip into the 40s. The bulk of plants in ...

So you lost plants this year to May’s slogfest and then to summer’s dry heat? The full toll might not even be apparent until next spring when dead/damaged plants try to shift back into growth mode. It ...

Winter can make even experienced gardeners second-guess themselves. One week your beds look fine, and the next they’re a jumble of brown sticks, collapsed stems, and patchy soil that screams “failure.

Dormant plants are alive but resting, while dead plants won’t recover and should be removed. Use the scratch test: green under the bark means dormant, brown and dry means dead. During dormancy, water ...