Each year the National Garden Bureau chooses plants of the year. I always look forward to which plants they pick and learning ...

The Dianthus is fragrant, pink-lilac, pink-purple or white, often with picotee (a flower with a different colour around the edge than the flower’s base colour) margins ...

And names that describe the plant’s growth habit: “arboreus” – treelike; “columnaris” – columnar; “procurrens” – spreading, ...

If you’re looking for a plant for your garden that will come back year after year, is easy to care for and suitable for a ...

Cover crops like millet, sorghum, and black-eyed peas have been successful at the botanic gardens. They improve water ...

Richard explained: "For the freshest, best-looking blooms, the ideal window to purchase Mother’s Day flowers is between ...

Bigleaf hydrangeas are no doubt the most popular hydrangeas. Their other common name, French hydrangeas, is misleading ...

Kalpana Mukherjee admires flowers in her balcony Pictures by Brinda Sarkar ...

Hardy geraniums are universally regarded as one of the most popular garden plants, ideal for sunny or shady corners and types ...

Parasites that burst forth from a vine. Others seem woven out of fantasy: translucent white ghosts, blooms born of fire.

Mulch can be almost any loose aggregate material that will stay put and not significantly reduce air exchange out of the soil ...

I think back to my childhood growing up in Madison County, after our family moved out from Jackson. I remember when Highway 51 was a two-lane road all the way to Canton. Sledge’s was one of the few ...