I've spent several years living in the wide-open spaces of Wyoming, and as an avid hiker, I enjoy the natural wonders that flourish in our windswept landscapes. Among them are the myriad ...

While it might be bleak and cold outside, December is the perfect time to sow some seeds of spring-flowering plants to give ...

A successful vegetable garden should not only contain vegetables. It should be a diverse planting scheme, or polyculture, that also includes herbs and a range of flowers. In an organic garden, ...

Deep roots make the soil more stable and help it stay fertile. They also soak up water, reducing runoff and keeping nutrients ...

NORTH SYRACUSE, N.Y. — April showers bring beautiful May flowers, just ask anyone who shopped at Chuck Hafner's Garden Center ahead of Mother's Day weekend. "I just pray when I plant because I don't ...

Many classic holiday plants originate in the tropics. Poinsettias ( Euphorbia pulcherrima ), for example, hail from Mexico ...

In the spring, beautiful beds of pansies, violas, petunias, dianthus, snapdragons and other cool-season bedding plants are blooming in flower gardens. The peak blooming season for these plants is ...

The summer may be over and harvest may have passed, but for the impassioned gardeners out there, the planting never stops – there are just as many hardy plants, from trees and shrubs to more ...

To a new gardener, the idea of self-seeding plants may sound brilliant -- especially for plants that give an annual pop of color. Self-seeding flowers do what the name suggests; they drop seeds after ...