Usually when you buy a certain plant from merchant, the soil type might not be suitable to the plant. Is it safe to change the soil completely? I mean to remove all the soil around most of the roots, then put it into a pot with new soil. I can think of 2 disadvantages: 1)The root cannot hold on ...

I have a large hillside area, which usually weed is out of control. For the next year, I am thinking about putting some kind of ground-cover plants such as English Ivy to cover the area. I am not sure that I need to put landscape fabric before I doing so. Can it prevents weed from coming back nex...

We've had requests in the past to include boxes on questions that indicate the user's geographic info. This helps in cases where the answer is tailored to their specific climate. Recently, StackExchange rolled out a new feature where if you hover over a user's gravatar, it expands into a pop-up ...

I got an orange tree a few months ago and it always seems to have allot of problems. Curling leaves, yellow leafs and dying leaves. I am not looking for suggestions as to why I have problems here but when talking to a person at a hardware store I was told that the tree was probably an indoor tree...

Is it possible that an instance of a plant could just be a dud. As in even with great care its never healthy?