Here’s something that surprises most new gardeners: the peony you plant this fall may still be blooming long after you’ve handed the garden over to someone else.
These plants routinely live 50 to 100 years, and people still stumble on...
A single trip to the garden center has a way of emptying a wallet. You go in for a couple of tomato seedlings and leave a hundred dollars lighter, wondering how a money-saving hobby got so expensive.
Here is the...
Somewhere near you, there are almost certainly daffodils blooming over a garden that no longer exists — bulbs a family planted 50 or 100 years ago, still trumpeting yellow every spring long after the house and flower beds have...
If you’ve ever flipped through a seed catalog wondering which flower won’t punish you for being new at this, here’s your answer: zinnias.
They sprout in days, shrug off heat and so-so soil, and the more you cut them, the...
Most of us first meet the snapdragon as a stubby little six-pack at the garden center, wedged between the petunias and marigolds. That introduction does the plant a real disservice.
Give a snapdragon the right variety and a long, cool...
Here’s a fact that catches almost everyone off guard: the scrubby sponge hanging in your shower probably never saw the ocean. It’s a dried fruit.
Give a loofah vine a long, warm summer, something sturdy to climb, and a little...
The first time I handed a friend a cucamelon, she pinched it between two fingers and asked whether I’d shrunk a watermelon.
Then she bit into it and her eyebrows shot up—instead of sweet pink melon, she got crisp cucumber...
Imagine stepping into your garden on a gray February morning to find delicate pink blossoms perfuming the frosty air with spicy-sweet fragrance.
While most gardens sleep under winter's blanket, you're enjoying one of nature's most resilient performers—Prunus mume, the Japanese...
It's late August, most of your garden is winding down, and you're craving that last burst of color before fall.
That's exactly when turtlehead comes into its own—a charming native perennial with quirky, snapdragon-like blooms that keeps your garden buzzing...
Imagine stepping into your garden on a summer morning to find hundreds of dinner-plate-sized blooms cascading over your arbor, each flower a masterpiece of color and form. That's the magic of clematis.
Yet I can't tell you how many gardeners...