While mulch is a great resource in both reducing weeds and keeping your trees healthy, don’t overlook the usefulness of ...

At this time of year, wouldn’t you just love to stroll outside and see some green plants surviving these cold days? I have ...

Instead of leaving your garden barren in winter, choose from these winter flowers that thrive in cold temperatures, from winter jasmine to snowdrops.

These low-growing plants perform important environmental services while beautifying the garden year-round. Allegheny spurge is a native woodland ground cover that is much better behaved than its ...

Ground covers are a wonderful way to fill in the gaps in your garden and create a beautiful, lush feeling throughout. However, not all of these plants are worth growing—some can even be invasive and ...

Common purslane (Portulaca oleracea) is often overlooked or even pulled up as a weed, but this hardy plant is actually a nutritional powerhouse and a welcome addition to local gardens. It can thrive ...

As a gardener and a garden writer, I enjoy taking photos of plants, in all their stages of growth (and sometimes demise). Most photos I take for my own record-keeping, but I also post quite a lot on ...

I love ground covers! I did not realize until recently that there is so much to be learned about this topic. The universal ground cover is, of course, turfgrass. People have been using grasses of one ...

Yard sloping to white fence and flat mowed area. - Mulevich/Shutterstock A sloped yard can be a joy or an ordeal. It can put you eye-level with the treetops and serve as your personal sledding hill in ...

A practical way to keep your garden flourishing is through companion planting. This type of planting is where you add different plants in your yard that will aid each other whether that is through ...

When planning a garden, I always start by thinking in layers. Varying plant heights not only adds visual depth but also creates opportunities for sustainable gardening practices and supports habitat ...