You might be tempted to accept every last gift plant you’re offered, and you may end up with some great — and free — plants. But you also may end up with someone else’s invader. Here’s how to tell the difference…
What would gardeners want from Santa? How about a groundhog-eating rabbit, no-prune plants with an off button or maybe even some halfways decent weather for a change?
Make sure you pick a fresh Christmas tree to start with, and then follow these steps to keep the needles on your tree through Christmas.
An accident during a Connecticut home garden tour led to a threatened lawsuit that not only ended a 20-year-old charity event but may make people think twice before agreeing to open their garden gates to a garden tour.
Israeli bioscientist Daniel Chamovitz says plants are more like people than we think. They can see, talk, smell and even remember in their own curious way. Here’s a look at what a plant really “knows…”
Why do we pay to have our leaves hauled away and then turn around and buy mulch, soil amendments and fertilizer? It makes more sense to me to keep our leaves on site…
No need to let your tender plants croak when frost hits. Many of them are easy to start from cuttings, which lets you overwinter “babies” inside that become “mothers” for a ton of new freebies next spring. Here’s how…
What happens when George’s yard is the subject of a garden tour? First, buckets of sweat, then a debate between “cute” and the plants.
A virulent new strain of downy mildew disease threatens to wipe impatiens off our gardening map. And that’s a shame because this plant is our favorite annual and our go-to choice for shade.
You can’t just put any plant wherever you like. The better you can figure out the conditions you’ve got and match plants that suit that, the less trouble you’ll have with dead and struggling plants. That’s not always, though… even for the Governor’s Residence staff.