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If your cold-weather garden is dreary, consider adding ornamental kale for a showy pop of red, purple, pink and white. When done in groupings, these lovely plants make a striking display with their b ...

I’d like to introduce one of my favorite flowering plants—Streptocarpella ‘Concord Blue’, a reliable, long-blooming shade plant that holds both horticultural and personal meaning for ...

Evergreen foundation plants have long been the backbone of the home landscape. Originally, these plantings were considered necessary to disguise the unattractive exposed foundations of houses and por ...

Few flowering shrubs and perennials create the tropical drama of hibiscus. With dinner-plate-sized blooms, vibrant colors, and months of flowers, hibiscus instantly transforms ordinar ...

By KK Depending on your location, you may be just arranging some cool weather annuals in your spring containers, or you may be already looking toward changing those out for a permanent ...

Refreshing Container Gardens in Late Summer Often by the time August rolls around, the window hayracks we planted back in May look a little tired and in need of some help. Three m ...

Garden arches are not just for climbing roses! While a rose-laden arch is indeed beautiful, such a planting may not suit many architectural or garden design styles, or match a homeown ...

By KK If you’ve ever admired the showy, globe-like clusters of white, pink, or blue blooms in gardens or floral arrangements, you’ve likely encountered the stunning hydrangea. This ver ...

By KK Spending a lot of time at home lately? Now that it's winter, are you feeling a bit confined, and finding the air a bit stuffy? Do you need to breathe some life into your workspac ...

Hugelkultur: A New (Old) Approach to Raised Bed Gardening Large hugelkultur bed with base layer of logs and sticks.  Photo courtesy Jon Roberts from Austin TX, USA, CC BY-SA ...

Goth Gardens: Embrace the Dark Side Gardening is often seen as a pursuit of light and color, with vibrant flowers and lush greenery taking center stage. But there’s a growing movement ...

In early fall, often the focus is on the high color potential of pumpkins, chrysanthemums, cool weather pansies and fall blooming perennials such as aster. Grasses, too, come into pla ...

Having worked in a retail nursery’s tree lot for several years, I learned a few things about cut Christmas trees that might help you out: Freshness: Buying your tree later does not mean it&rsq ...

By KK When it comes to texture, movement, and year-round interest in the garden, few plant groups rival ornamental grasses. They bring elegance, structure, and softness to planting des ...

By KK Gardening certainly has evolved in recent years. Once upon a time, who cared whether we kept an arsenal of plant pharmaceuticals and fertilizers in the shed, how much water we us ...

Gardens are places where we can unleash our imagination and bring beauty into our everyday lives, transforming an ordinary space through the vibrant interplay of color, texture, and l ...