It is important to many people to have an attractive lawn. Often damage occurs to an area of lawn and it seems to take a long time to recoup. St. Augustine grass, which is the most common lawn grass ...

A: My challenge will be in answering without a close-up photo, and without a photo of the root system. You’ll see as I outline the possibilities. First, the oddball one. There may be a few people out ...

If your yard is predominately St. Augustine grass, establishing an annual preservation routine can result in a healthier, more beautiful lawn. Yearly maintenance projects, such as aeration, will ...

Your St. Augustine lawn is made up of millions of stolons or runners that criss-cross the surface of your lawn. The stolons have the grass leaf blade on top; and on the bottom side, roots go into the ...

Are chinch bugs active now? Just recently, my St. Augustine lawn has developed several round brown areas. If it is chinch bugs, what is the best pesticide? Thanks. — Keith Chinch bugs are not active ...

You may be aware of the common pests and pathogens that harm our St. Augustine grass lawns on an annual basis such as take-all root rot (Gaeumannomyces graminis var. Graminis), large patch fungus ...

A question from Dan Gill: My St. Augustine grass has turned tan with the cold. What should I do, if anything? My hydrangeas also look awful, but I don't think I should cut them back until I see new ...

Q: After reading about your success with St. Augustine grass in your own yard, I decided to gamble and sod my yard with Palmetto St. Augustine last June. By August, I had the most beautiful grass in ...

DEAR NEIL: Along with most in Texas, our St. Augustine lawn is burning up. That grass that gets some shade is faring better. There are bare spots exposed where there once was grass, but we see dead ...

Question. We have coral honeysuckles on each side of an arbor where we had pavers installed, and the plants are declining. Could installing the pavers have caused the decline, and what should we do?

I suppose my horticultural world has been dull lately. As a result, it doesn't take much to excite me. For instance, the guys up at Evergreen Lawn Care were at my house applying the fall application ...