Beat the winter blues by planting now — from snapdragons to foxgloves, these spring flowers started from seed will have ...

Gardeners often spend a lot of time deciding where to plant perennials, considering things like color, shape, and texture. Knowing the mature height of your perennials is key to choosing the best ...

February is the month when indoor seed-starting takes center stage in the Northern gardening world. It’s when eager gardeners get busy starting their cool-season plants, such as cabbage, broccoli, ...

One of the best Christmas presents this year was a new gardening book by Sydney Eddison. I have to admit I had mixed feelings ...

Gardening can be demoralizing if, after hours of sweaty work, your results are lackluster and your plants decimated by bugs or eaten by deer. Worse is when the flowers you did manage to coax into ...

That said, some varieties, such as Echinopsis, Mammillaria, and Parodia, can do well in a heated greenhouse. "These types of ...

Many gardeners start vegetables, annual flowers and herbs from seeds, either indoors or directly in the garden. However, have you ever considered growing your own perennials from seed? Perennial ...

Don't toss that supermarket lemon. Learn how to grow lemon trees (Citrus x limon) from seeds to produce one of the most fragrant flowering trees around.

Winter is the perfect time to sketch out no-till beds, set up a compost system, and choose native plants for spring.