Lobelia delivers rare true-blue flowers but fades in summer heat. Learn how to plant it, keep it watered, revive a stalled plant, and fix browning leaves.
London plane tree care is easier than its size suggests. This tough hybrid shrugs off pollution, poor soil, and drought, but its litter and roots need room.
Low light houseplants let you green up north windows, offices, and corners away from the sun, but the dim spot quietly changes how you water and feed them.
Loam soil is the balanced sand, silt, and clay mix every plant tag asks for. Learn to test your soil texture and turn clay or sandy ground into loam.
The lisianthus flower looks like a rose without the thorns, but most growers lose it at one stage. Here is how to grow, feed, and cut it for weeks of bloom.
The lily of the valley flower perfumes the spring shade garden, but it spreads fast and is poisonous. Learn how to plant, contain, and care for it.
Thinking of a linden tree but worried about sticky honeydew or dead bees? Here is how to grow, prune, and use Tilia – and the truth about silver lindens.
The lemongrass plant is a tender tropical grass prized for its bright citrus flavor, and it grows easily in full sun, rich soil, or a pot you bring indoors.
A lilac bush dazzles in spring, yet many never bloom. Learn the full-sun, well-drained, cold-winter needs and the prune-after-flowering rule that fixes it.
Liatris fails most often from winter-wet soil rotting its corm. Plant blazing star corms eyes-up in full sun with sharp drainage for an easy monarch magnet.
Leyland cypress makes a fast privacy screen at 3-4 ft a year, but it grows huge, topples in storms, and is canker-prone. How to plant, space, and decide.
Lawn aeration relieves the compacted soil that starves grass roots of air, water, and nutrients. Learn the methods, signs you need it, and how to do it.