While some plants can happily overwinter in the outdoors, there are others which are more sensitive to cold temperatures and ...

This is a great week to score bargains at the garden center or nursery, especially if there are any leftover spring-blooming ...

Cultivating house plants - whether succulents, cacti or otherwise - is a worthwhile but expensive hobby that can be much more ...

When you get your plant, don't disturb the roots. Cut out the bottom of the pot, put the pot in the planting hole—with sandy, ...

Don’t leave it until the ground’s too hard to work, your edibles are impossible to lift out of the soil, and the roots of ...

One impressive evergreen option is the blue fescue grass, Festuca glauca, famed for its low-growing habit and silvery-blue ...

Whether you're growing mums in your garden or adding them to your containers, their colorful blooms are a dramatic component ...

The Coulter’s Matilija poppy (Romneya coulteri), a California/Baja native plant, is a paradox. It is described as both ...

There are several good reasons to tend a vegetable garden in the fall months, including the fact that it tends to require ...