Imagine stepping outside and seeing fresh blooms for months instead of just a few short weeks. A garden that keeps changing from early spring to late fall is possible with a bit of planning and the ...
Keep beds and containers colorful through fall with these heat-loving flowers to plant in June.
As we enter the fall season, gardeners consider planting selected bulbs for enjoyment as they bloom in the spring. This column opens with a brief overview of bulbs in the garden and focuses on ...
Summer is a highpoint in the perennial garden and by combining a variety of bloom times and plant height, gardeners can enjoy continuous color. Tall, bearded iris often overlap in bloom time with ...
Spring-blooming woody plants like lilacs (especially the old, grafted varieties), ornamental cherries, forsythia, crabapples, azaleas and some magnolias set their flower buds for the following year in ...
While it’s nearing the end of the line this time of year for most of the landscape, there’s one group of plants when it’s prime time to start them – spring-flowering bulbs. Led by tulips, daffodils, ...
The next few weeks are some of the year’s best for pruning landscape plants – mainly woody-stemmed ones that already have bloomed for the year, as well as most needled evergreens. Spring-blooming ...
If you've taken good care of your hibiscus plants but aren't yet enjoying the benefits of their blooms, have some patience ...
The weather outside might be steamy, but there are still tasks that need to be done in your garden to keep it thriving through the fall and beyond.