October is the start of the Cyprus gardening year for me as well as many other serious gardeners. If this has been your first ...

This fall, look around for places where you could fit in a little more spring bulb cheerfulness. For example, tuck snowdrops ...

Erythroniums pair brilliantly with trilliums, another aristocratic, shade-loving, spring-flowering woodlander, albeit one ...

It’s useless for shade and, worse, ugly. It’s no good for lumber, a danger to anyone below when it drops its cones and a fire ...

Climate change and water restrictions can have a significant impact on our backyards, however with clever planting you can ...

When space is at a premium and you'd like to fit in as many shade loving plants as possible, that is a very important characteristic to consider. You may see some familiar faces here, like hostas and ...

Some plants make great companions, and others the opposite. In regards to the latter, if you want healthy zinnias, avoid ...

Bugleweed is popular for its unique and attractive foliage, producing a dense carpet of green-purple foliage. Growing no ...

You'd think L.A.'s 'perfect' street tree would be a California native. So why does the city plant so many trees from ...

If you are looking for spring blooms that are a little different, then try Chionodoxa forbesii sp. or Glory of the Snow.

But in fact the long-lasting flowers of many kinds of ornamental grasses are one of their great charms, effortlessly adding a ...