https://lovelygardenroots.com/winter-mulch-perennials-after-soil-freezes/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T18:00:00+00:00Perennial Beds Shouldn’t Get Winter Mulch Until the Soil Starts to Freeze, Then Minnesota Extension Recommends 5 to 6 Inches of Leaves or Straw https://lovelygardenroots.com/new-evergreens-water-before-freeze/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T17:30:00+00:00Newly Planted Evergreens Need About 2 Inches of Water a Week Until the Ground Freezes, Twice What Established Ones Get https://lovelygardenroots.com/tree-trunk-wrap-sunscald-november/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T17:00:00+00:00The Southwest Side of a Young Tree Can Run 77 Degrees Warmer Than the North in Winter, Which Is Why Extension Experts Wrap Trunks in November https://lovelygardenroots.com/hydrangea-pruning-by-type/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T17:00:00+00:00Bigleaf and Oakleaf Hydrangeas Bloom on Old Wood, So Illinois Extension Says They Get Pruned Right After Flowering, Not in Fall https://lovelygardenroots.com/christmas-cactus-14-hours-darkness/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T16:30:00+00:00Christmas Cactus Needs 14 Hours of Unbroken Darkness for Six Weeks to Set Buds, and Just 2 Hours of Light Can Stop It https://lovelygardenroots.com/poinsettias-below-50-degrees-wrap/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T16:00:00+00:00Poinsettias Carried Outside Unwrapped Below 50 Degrees Can Be Damaged Between the Store and the Car, Extension Experts Warn https://lovelygardenroots.com/diseased-tomato-plants-trash-not-compost/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T15:30:00+00:00Diseased Tomato Plants Belong in the Trash, Not the Compost, Unless the Pile Reaches Near 150 Degrees, UConn’s Dawn Pettinelli Says https://lovelygardenroots.com/clemson-fall-soil-test-lime/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T15:00:00+00:00A $6 Clemson Soil Test Taken This Fall Gives Lime the Several Months It Needs to Work Before the Spring Vegetable Garden Goes In https://lovelygardenroots.com/east-ridge-chester-perry-weed-rules/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T15:00:00+00:00‘Destroyed a Part of Me’: Chester Perry Told East Ridge’s Council What Losing His Native Garden and Oak Felt Like, and the City Is Now Looking at Its Weed Rules https://lovelygardenroots.com/leave-perennials-standing-winter/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T14:54:37+00:00Perennial Stems and Seed Heads Left Standing Until Spring Feed Birds and Insulate Plant Crowns, So Iowa State Says Fall Cutback Isn’t Necessary https://lovelygardenroots.com/rabbit-vole-guards-young-trees/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T14:30:00+00:00Rabbit and Vole Guards Need to Be Around Young Trees by Mid-November, With Hardware Cloth Buried 2 to 3 Inches Down, Iowa State Says https://lovelygardenroots.com/mosenyii-yakhro-nagaland-memorial-garden/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T14:30:00+00:00Mosenyii Yakhro, 90, Planted a Flower Garden Around His Late Wife’s Grave in India’s Nagaland, and Village Children and Tourists Now Come to See It https://lovelygardenroots.com/boca-raton-oak-tree-termites-developer/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-02T13:00:00+00:00A Boca Raton Developer Told Neighbors the Old Oak Next Door Would Stay, Then Crews Found Something in Its Branches https://lovelygardenroots.com/forcing-paperwhites-amaryllis-christmas/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-01T21:00:00+00:00Paperwhite Bulbs Started in Early November Can Bloom in Three to Five Weeks, While Amaryllis Needs Six to Eight for Holiday Flowers https://lovelygardenroots.com/winterize-lawn-mower-hoses-tools/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-01T20:30:00+00:00A Teaspoon of Clean Oil in the Cylinder Is One of the Steps Nebraska Extension Lists for Putting a Lawn Mower Away for Winter https://lovelygardenroots.com/november-tree-planting-extension-steps/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-01T20:00:00+00:00November Is the Ideal Month to Plant a New Tree, Extension Experts Say, in a Hole Twice as Wide as the Root Ball but No Deeper https://lovelygardenroots.com/last-lawn-mowing-height-leaves/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-01T19:30:00+00:00The Year’s Last Lawn Mowing Should Leave Grass About 2 Inches Tall, and HGTV Says to Keep Mulching Leaves Until About 90% Have Fallen https://lovelygardenroots.com/oakland-protected-tree-fine-bernard-warner/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-01T18:30:00+00:00Oakland Hit Matthew Bernard and Lynn Warner With a $915,135 Fine for Cutting 38 Protected Trees, and the Couple Says Fire Officials Told Them to Clear Dead Ones https://lovelygardenroots.com/what-to-plant-november-zones-7-10/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-01T18:00:00+00:00Gardeners in Zones 7 to 10 Can Keep Planting Well Into November, and Spring Bulbs Go Two to Three Times as Deep as They Are Tall https://lovelygardenroots.com/rosemary-overwinter-indoors-zone-7/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-01T17:30:00+00:00Rosemary Can Live Up to 30 Years When It’s Sheltered, but in Zone 7 and Colder It Needs to Come Indoors Before Winter https://lovelygardenroots.com/rhododendron-winter-burn-burlap-windbreak/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-01T17:00:00+00:00Rhododendron Leaves Curl Below 20 Degrees, and Extension Experts Say a Burlap Windbreak Left Open at the Top Can Spare Evergreens From Winter Burn https://lovelygardenroots.com/maryland-lawn-fertilizer-law-nov-15-fescue/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-01T16:30:00+00:00Maryland Homeowners Can’t Fertilize Lawns After Nov. 15, While Fescue Lawns Elsewhere Can Take About 1 Pound of Nitrogen per 1,000 Square Feet Now https://lovelygardenroots.com/cut-mums-4-6-inches-leaf-mulch-beds/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-11-01T16:00:00+00:00Oregon State Extension Says to Cut Chrysanthemums Back to 4 to 6 Inches After They Bloom and Blanket Garden Beds in 3 to 4 Inches of Leaves https://lovelygardenroots.com/altamonte-springs-coyotes-backyard/Lovely Garden Rootsen2026-10-31T18:30:00+00:00Coyotes Have Come Within 16 Steps of Claudette Rothschild’s Back Door in Altamonte Springs’ Oak Harbour, and One Killed the Feral Cat She Had Cared For Over a Year