Gardeners often spend a lot of time deciding where to plant perennials, considering things like color, shape, and texture. Knowing the mature height of your perennials is key to choosing the best ...

It’s time to put up your new gardening calendar and give yourself reminders of some of the jobs you’ll need to do through the seasons.Follow this month-by-month bullet point guide to some of the ...

At the beginning of a new year, we often come up with resolutions to help us focus on what we most want to accomplish. Here ...

From frothy seedheads to swaying stems to spikey clumps of foliage, ornamental grasses offer loads of winter interest. Call ...

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, ...

Weeds are relentless, clever, opportunistic intruders that won't let go of any chance to pop up in your garden. No matter what you do, they seem to find a way in. And it is especially tough to watch ...

Gardening can be demoralizing if, after hours of sweaty work, your results are lackluster and your plants decimated by bugs or eaten by deer. Worse is when the flowers you did manage to coax into ...

Dreaming of a garden that looks lush and colorful without months of waiting? Fast-growing flowers can quickly fill your yard ...

Don't toss that supermarket lemon. Learn how to grow lemon trees (Citrus x limon) from seeds to produce one of the most fragrant flowering trees around.

Winter is the perfect time to sketch out no-till beds, set up a compost system, and choose native plants for spring.

That said, some varieties, such as Echinopsis, Mammillaria, and Parodia, can do well in a heated greenhouse. "These types of ...