Growing from seed is an inexpensive way to explore new plant possibilities. Last year, the rosemary (Rosy), Royal Thyme and ...

A fast-growing ground cover with vibrant flowers sounds like a great garden addition. However, this particular perennial is ...

While many spring-blooming plants go in the ground as seeds or bulbs in fall, you can transplant many potted perennials as late as June for blooms all summer.

Sweet alyssum ( Lobularia maritima) is a low-growing plant with beautiful purple, pink, or white blooms. The pleasantly fragrant flower is perfect as a ground cover or to fill empty gaps in your ...

The garden catalogs have arrived. They are casually relaxing on the kitchen table pretending everything is fine between us. How did they even sneak in? I bet they waited in the untrimmed holly bushes ...

From weigela to zinnias, these pink-flowering plants keep borders blooming from summer into autumn with months of colour and ...

During the last week of April this year I bought five dwarf gardenias in 3-gallon pots from a local vendor. The leaves were ...

After 60 years of gardening, former Courier Journal columnist Bob Hill, now in his 80s, is downsizing to a final, simplified ...

I never like to have trees cut down unless it is necessary. Some deciding factors are obvious, such as storm or equipmen damage. Or, maybe they have grown too close to your home or other buildings.

Brian Shema, Operations Director at the Audubon Society of Western Pa., explains some botany basics: “A native plant is a ...

This past Monday it was windy and as I sat on the deck in early evening maple seeds from a nearby silver maple tree were being blown all around me. These seeds are winged and their proper name is ...

It’s been a cool and windy start to spring this year. The anticipation of flowers — not a few pretty blooms scattered here and there but a lush and abundant flowering display — grows stronger each day ...