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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A lavender plant that rots or refuses to bloom usually needs one fix: lean fast-draining soil, full sun, and almost no water. Here is how to get it right.
Lambs ear gives velvet-soft silver foliage on a drought-tolerant groundcover, but it rots in heat and wet soil. Learn the tricks that keep it thriving.
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.
Legumes pull nitrogen from thin air and enrich your soil for free. Learn how nitrogen fixation works, inoculate seed, and grow peas, beans, and cover crops.
A kumquat tree gives you eat-whole golden citrus where oranges would freeze. Learn to pick a sweet or sour variety, plant, water, overwinter, and harvest.
Kousa dogwood is the disease-resistant alternative to native flowering dogwood, with later blooms, edible red fruit, and good fall color. How to grow it.
A kwanzan cherry tree gives you clouds of double pink spring blooms with no fruit to clean up. Learn how to plant it, when it flowers, and its main problems.