Flowering vines are an easy way to fill vertical spaces in your garden with life and color. Choose from annual vines for quick color for a growing season, or go with a perennial vine that will grow ...

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BOISE, Idaho — If you haven't gotten around to planting your vegetable garden yet, it's not too late. You can plant crops of vegetables and flowers, even in the heat of summer, that will grow quickly ...

Cosmos flowers do particularly well in lean soil. Some shorter varieties thrive in containers. It’s best to plant them just before the last spring frost, in full sun and in well-draining soil. Protect ...

If you’re a minimalist, consider decorating for the holidays the way architect Elizabeth Roberts does: by growing flowering bulbs. Forcing bulbs is easy! Here’s how she does it → Stefano Ukmar for The ...

A finch taking petals from a zinnia flower - Melissa Burovac/Getty A downside that might make you rethink putting a bird feeder in your yard is the absolute mess they can create. While you might enjoy ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: Perennials. Ox tongue (Gasteria glomerata) is a succulent gem. Foliage consists of paired leaves, each of which is thick and covered with tiny bumps, ...

Cape primrose (Streptocarpus saxorum) is an easy-to-grow indoor flowering plant that could be the next gorgeous addition to your indoor garden. While the Cape primrose is just one of the many ...

Many native flowering dogwood blooms are gone, however there is another interesting dogwood now in full bloom. Kousa is a showy flowering dogwood that leafs out before it flowers, providing a ...

Mary Berry has revealed her favourite flower in her garden, and the good news for you is that this plant almost thrives on neglect- and you can plant it right now. Iris unguicularis, or ‘Mary Barnard’ ...