When you put so much love and energy into your vegetable garden, you want to do everything possible to ensure that the plants ...

Get the jump on the growing season this year with these pretty early spring flowers that just can’t wait for warm weather.

Allium hybrid, Zones 3 to 8 This ornamental onion punctuates the garden ... French Vanilla flowers. Blooming from summer to ...

Zinnias are colorful daisy-like flowers with rounded, bright petals in hues of yellow, orange, red, pink, white, purple, and ...

With a blend of annuals and perennials, your garden can be a riot of colour ... choice that typically offers lavender-blue and pink flowers from the first year. Newer varieties of Catmint grow ...

Boxwoods are classic and popular hedge shrubs that add visual interest and architectural lines to a garden or yard. Trim them ...

Spring brings the return of color to the garden as bulbs bloom, perennials re-emerge, and new annuals settle in. But there’s ...

Growth is very vigorous this month, and a few April showers would help things in gardens as well as fill the dams. With the ...

Avens, also called geum, have striking, small flowers in brilliant colors ranging from orange to yellow and red. These ...

Hibiscuses are best planted in late spring or early summer when the weather is warm and settled. Hibiscuses planted early in ...

It is just very difficult for new plants to compete with tree roots, especially in the shade. Add organic matter to the ...

Q: My neighbor pointed out a part of my big pink-blooming loropetalum shrub that has white flowers. Why did this happen? Do I have an off-breed loropetalum? — Jack Chilton, north Decatur ...