A lavender farm has opened for the summer with some flowers already in full bloom and set to be at their best for the next few weeks, its owner has said. Ian Jamie and his wife Pippa set up ...

Featuring fragrant, pretty purple blooms and silvery foliage, the Lavandula phenomenal is a sun-loving perennial that will add both height and color to your garden. Kelly Funk, president and CEO ...

CHUCK MARTIN: Weeds in your lawn are a personal preference and unequivocally related to one’s ego. Many people love that look of uniformity and lose sleep when they discover a dandelion is their ...

Savannah James promises me she didn’t set out to create a beauty brand. But when her 10-year-old daughter told her she wanted to grow up to be just like her — makeup routine and all — it ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Plant lavender (Lavandula spp.) where it will grow best and you will be rewarded with a beloved perennial that blooms from early summer into ...

Three different species of lavender, Lavandula multifida, Lavandula pinnata and Lavandula canariensis, are all called fern leaf lavender and they differ in the color of their foliage. L ...

Once the ground cover is established, each flower produces three sticky nutlets. With each plant cluster containing 20 flowers, it has a lot of seeds to spread.

As cooler weather approaches, boxelder bugs begin to aggregate in warm areas like south- and west-facing buildings, houses, the base of their host tree, firewood piles, landscape mulch and rock ...

The understory, where hophornbeam grows, is the layer of vegetation beneath the forest canopy (overstory) and is composed of shrubs, saplings and small trees that grow in the humid, dappled shade.

Life Close-up photographs of seeds show their intricate beauty These images are taken from a new book, Seeds: Time capsules of life, which explores how plant life has flourished in the past 360 ...

The seeds—which hitchhike on sheep, cows, horses, dogs and hikers—are thoroughly annoying. Sheep wool can be so densely packed with nutlets that the fleece loses value. In the United Kingdom, people ...