Grasses serve many purposes in the garden. Illinois Extension says native grasses can increase root competition in plantings, ...

There are a host of choices with enough selection in size, shape and colour to use them everywhere in the garden. Typically, ...

Combining perennials that bloom during each season ensures your garden or landscaping will be constantly flowering ...

We’re around that time of year when I, like all gardeners with potted plants, will have to choose which ones to bring inside ...

This week's Plant Pick of the Week is a native shrub that turns wine-red and ripens blue-black berries in early fall.

Fall asters are long-lived perennials. The plants die to the ground soon after they finish blooming. Trim the spent stems ...

Do you ever look at plants and wonder why they aren’t flowering? No matter the flowers you are growing you are always looking ...

With all the seed buying and gardening that happens in spring, people forget that there are perennial vegetables that grow ...

Autumn may mean the end of the gardening year but some plants go out not with a whimper but with an explosion of colour.

October is an ideal month to plant a variety of flowers, hardy vegetables, and shrubs, including marigolds, chrysanthemums, ...

We don’t hate chrysanthemums. Let’s just get that out of the way. There is a lot to be said for their instant, impulse-buy ...

October is ideal for planting winter-blooming flowers in India. Marigolds, chrysanthemums, petunias, pansies, and snapdragons ...