If sunlight is scarce in your backyard it's important to choose the right shade-loving plants to make the best of the space. Plants that adapt easily to shade conditions tend to be understated ...

If you’ve decided to save your amaryllis bulb, you’ll need to follow specific steps so you can get it to bloom next holiday.

During what we fervently hope will be a long rainy winter, cabin fever may make us long for some signs of new plant life and color in or near our homes. This can be achieved with potted flowering ...

Flowering bulbs offer a multitude of opportunities to enhance your landscape aesthetics. With ranges of color, bloom type, and size, as well as their long sequence of bloom, bulbs are unequaled in any ...

Flowering bulbs are one of the harbingers of spring, bringing with them a splash of unexpected color. For all their beauty, bulbs are surprisingly low maintenance, containing both seed and the source ...

Plant out pot-grown trees, shrubs and climbers. Prune shrub, bush and climbing roses, Buddleia davidii, dogwoods with ...

In just 15 minutes, you can plant a beautiful garden guaranteed to brighten your spirits and indoor décor this winter. All you need is a container with drainage holes, potting mix and some tulips, ...

Autumn is here, and many gardeners like to continue gardening through the season. The crisp, cool weather shouldn’t deter you from adding new plants to your garden or home landscape. As soon as the ...

Now is the time when it’s easy to be enticed by catalog photos and nursery displays of spring flowering bulbs. Nothing signals spring like the emergence of bright yellow daffodils or fragrant ...

Bright yellow daffodils, colorful tulips and fragrant hyacinths brighten our spring gardens. Give them the care they need to extend their spring display and they’ll keep them coming back for years.

One of my favorite elementary school art projects was making popcorn hyacinths. We would shake popped corn in a paper bag filled with dry tempera paint, cut leaves out of construction paper, and glue ...