Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Getty Images With proper care, your houseplants will eventually outgrow their containers and need to be moved into bigger ...

With the arrival of spring, it is time to start thinking about getting into the garden and adding new plants. Each time I remove a plant from its container, I am looking for circling roots, which is ...

Root pruning is one of those garden techniques that new gardeners hear about and scares them. But it is very easy to do and extremely helpful to the plants that you are doing it to because it allows ...

A plant can look perfectly fine one week and suddenly act like it has given up on life the next. Leaves droop, growth slows, and watering stops working the way it should. That shift doesn’t happen by ...

Q: Is there a way to test if a plant is root-bound in its container before buying? I’ve purchased too many plants that are so root-bound it is nearly impossible to unspiral or separate the roots. — ...

With proper care, your houseplants will eventually outgrow their containers and need to be moved into bigger ones. But just because you see some roots poking out of the drainage hole doesn't ...