You're not alone if you've struggled growing red-tip photinia in your garden. One season this plant looks fine, with its signature red-tipped leaves, and the following year, after pruning, it looks ...

Q: I took your recommendation and planted a Dapple Dandy pluot and Santa Rosa plum in the same hole about 18 inches apart. New growth has already started to appear. I’d now like to cut and lower the ...

Q: A couple of doors down from ours, in the front yard, our neighbor has a large bush, at least 10 feet across and 8 foot tall oval-shaped globe, growing in their yard. We’ve never really put much ...

Q: I was recently in a nursery looking for a red tip photinia to plant along a fence. They advised me that they hadn't carried them in years. Is this true? — Willis Dobbs, Atlanta A: It is true that ...

Photinia is an evergreen shrub that may make an attractive addition to your garden. The new growth of leaves is bright red; the flowers are clusters of small, white blossoms. There are several species ...

Q: We’ve never had any problem or disease with our established Photinia hedge until last year. The leaves developed brown spots and then most of them dropped off. Can we save our hedge? A: Photinia x ...

Question: I planted a row of cleyera in a bed that receives sunlight for about 3 hours during the middle of the day. My problem is that a number of the plants are dying. It begins with the leaves on ...

When the purple spots and yellow leaves show up on photinia and hawthorns, many people are told there is no effective treatment for the damaging entomosporium leaf spot disease. But it's not true.

M.B.: I know of nothing that works to keep Photinia leaves blight-free, but before I gossip maliciously about how ugly and acne-prone this popular landscape shrub has become, readers, please chime in ...