The basic rule of watering is to keep your plants healthy with the least amount of water possible. We don’t want our plants ...

I grew up in a simple house. My parents built it in 1947. In the early 50s we kids had chores and among mine was cutting ...

A popular food scrap is meant to 'boost' roses, and it even has a fantastic second purpose, keeping cats and rats away - and ...

The leaves are falling, there’s a chill in the air, and the countdown for Winter has begun — it must be October. Though it ...

During the long, hot dog days of late summer, the Office gets fewer calls from home gardeners. That was especially true this ...

Shrubs are the bones of a landscape - multitasking as hedges, windbreaks, privacy screens, and edging. Of course, like other ...

If you love how early the hellebores brighten the winter garden, you need to plant some Snowdrops (Galanthus) bulbs this fall ...

Lilacs have a rich history in America’s home landscape.

They have lots of shrubs, deciduous azaleas and native ferns. They have viburnums and abelias along with a variety of native ...

Plant lovers will enjoy the aptly named Christmas cactus, with its flat green stems which erupt with red and pink flowers as ...

This weekend's yard jobs include "cleaning up" some of the landscape, building a compost pile, and saying goodbye to the sale ...

Although the roots of garden plants can spread through the soil to find essential nutrients, pot-grown houseplants are ...