Growing herbs doesn't have to be hard. One sunny patch and a little bit of patience are all you need to bring this fragrant ...

Having pretty flowers in your garden isn't just limited to the warmest seasons. Plant a variety of blooming annuals for ...

February is the month when indoor seed-starting takes center stage in the Northern gardening world. It’s when eager gardeners get busy starting their cool-season plants, such as cabbage, broccoli, ...

There’s a special kind of pride that comes with nurturing a plant from a tiny seed into a thriving part of your garden. You ...

If spring crept up too quickly, and you’re scrambling to find some plants to add color to your garden, you should turn to fast-growing annuals. With brilliant bursts of color and low-maintenance ...

From the brightly-colored and ubiquitous ruby-throated hummingbird to the more elusive, mountain-inhabiting calliope hummingbird, there are many of these tiny, fluttering birds that spend spring and ...

My Empress Wu hosta has seed pods on the flower stems. I would like to plant some of the seeds just to see if I can get them to germinate. I realize that the Empress Wu is most likely a hybrid and ...

Mums are a go-to fall bloom for containers, but that also makes them a bit boring. Spice things up with other, equally pretty flowering and foliage options.

A butterfly-magnet new ageratum, a shrub-turned-annual-flower called dampiera, and a new sunflower with a thousand blooms headline the list of interesting new annual flowers debuting in the 2025 ...

Hummingbirds migrate north in the spring, and their arrival is eagerly anticipated by some gardeners. Certain plants, like cuphea, geraniums, impatiens, lantana, nicotiana, petunias, salvias, and ...