If your hostas are getting a little lonely, it might be time to plant them a new friend. Find some of the best options with ...

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

The best summer-flowering perennials will carry a garden through heat, drought, deluge, and whatever else summer serves up. In the Better Homes & Gardens Test Garden® in Des Moines, Iowa, a few top ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many of the flowers now bursting into color at the side of the road are the legacy of the nation’s European settlers 250 years ago ...

It may come as a surprise that just a few trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants feed 90% of moth and butterfly caterpillars ...

It often affects woody plants like crape myrtles and dogwoods, as well as various perennials and vegetables. Preventative measures include thinning vegetation for better airflow and avoiding overhead ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... We are currently at the time of the year for the Chelsea chop. This pruning method is named after the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show, ...

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

Learn about plants of the mint family in a wide range of varieties that pollinators — and people! — just can’t resist.

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.

With Memorial Day weekend in the rearview, gone too seem to be the brisk early morning temperatures calling for a hooded sweatshirt. Hot and dry conditions have returned, and seem to be the favored ...