Around Valentine's Day, consider this a botanical love letter filled with horticultural heartthrobs — garden companions that wink at our favorite labor of love.

These pretty, early spring flowers are the first to pop up in the garden. That’s what makes hellebores, winter heath and ...

Spring has sprung! As winter has started fading away and the days have grown longer, nature is beginning to awaken for spring ...

Many native plants, including some ferns, are adapted to dry shade. We are fortunate that many non-native plants from regions ...

Add color, texture, and volume to your paths, lawn edges, and driveways with long-flowering and low-maintenance border flowers ...

Shady areas in landscapes and gardens require plants that need or tolerate shade. If you need some ideas, attend the class “Some Shady Characters: Annuals and Perennials for Shady Sites” ...

Gardeners should keep an eye out for these new tropicals and shrubs, like mangaves, 'Gold Leopard' canna lilies and edible roses.

This makes winter an ideal time to sow wildflower seeds, cold hardy annuals, and many perennials ... and heat tolerant than old-fashioned spiraea, Little Bonnie™ has lovely blue-green foliage that ...

Check out new varieties of annual and perennial plants, including the 'Cookies and Cream' hibiscus, Golden Feathers polemonium and Supertunia Tiara petunia.

The plant blooms from early summer to early fall with the most profuse number of flowers in mid-summer. With a long tap root (it’s a member of the carrot family!), it’s drought-tolerant and ...

In my earlier years of gardening, I was attracted to and purchased unusual plants. Many of those didn’t survive beyond their ...