Winter White Flowers for the Garden Winter and white flowered plants go well together. Even in the snow these plants will dazzle and...
7 Easy-to-Grow Plants for Indoor Beauty Adding plants to indoor spaces adds beauty to our surroundings, helps remove toxins from the air...
Growing Goldenrod – Fall’s Golden Wands According to Aesop’s Fables, “a man is known by the company he keeps.” While there may be...
Growing Chrysanthemums Are you familiar with those huge, larger-than-life chrysanthemums your grandmother or grandfather...
Grow: Butterfly Weed This North American native plant is a butterfly magnet with flowers that are a nectar source for...
Coleus – Time to Take Another Look While you may have been busy collecting conifers or Japanese maples, plant breeders have also been...
Flowers for the Dog Days of Summer In late July through August, my garden runs on its own like a family of ten kids. I’ll give the...
Foodscaping Simplified: Just plant an edge! Who doesn’t want to enjoy a freshly harvested, “garden to table” meal? It is truly one of...
7 Roses for Your Garden Some are new, others are tried and true, and a few have won awards, but in all cases these roses...
Malabar Spinach: Easy, Edible and Elegant As a young Peace Corps volunteer in Africa, I ate many cooked leaves (and other things) that I had...
7 Annuals & Tender Perennials That Will Change Your Garden First of all, what the heck is a DWU? I just made that up. It’s from the common reference book...
Are You Growing Own-Root Roses? Recently a reader commented that while she enjoyed my articles, she didn’t always agree with me:...
Spring Blooming Plants for the New American Garden The style is hardly new. The New American Garden has been around since the 1960s, when Wolfgang...
Native Azaleas Gardeners can be prone to obsessions. I knew my husband was entranced, if not obsessed, when he...
Jump Start Spring with Early Annuals There are plenty of cool weather annuals besides pansies that are perfect for planting in early...