As a passionate gardener, I’m always on the lookout for beautiful and unique plants to add to my garden. However, it’s ...
It may be used as a stand-alone member of your herb garden or trained into a low hedge. It is a strewing herb, meaning it was ...
Cyclamen is the ultimate winter plant. Its characteristic butterfly -like flowers and beautiful heart-shaped leaves are the ...
Watch Asia, episode four on BBC One from Sunday 24 November at 6.20pm In 1966 there were only around 100 greater one-horned ...
These flowering trees, hardy in Zones 6 through10, bloom in mid-summer. Flower colors range from white through all the pinks to red to purple. In colder areas of Zone 6, crepe myrtles are often grown ...
In the fall after most of the trees are bare around my house and I have soaked in the last vibrant bittersweet, crimson, and ...
Poppies are herbaceous plants recognized for their delicate, cup-shaped flowers and brilliant colors, ranging from red and orange to pink and white. They are famously associated with remembrance and ...
One simple trick can make your Christmas cactus go from a few blossoms here and there, to being covered with flowers every ...
Because it’s one of the earliest spring bloomers, the serviceberry is an important food source for bees, butterflies and ...
My Russian sages ( Perovskia —which by the way are not from Russia or in the sage family) were still sporting silver leaves and about half of their tall, arching sprays of teensy lavender flower ...
I made this oak’s acquaintance courtesy of “Plants for the Winter Garden” (Timber Press, 2024), by Warren Leach. The author ...
Water trees, shrubs, lawns, and perennials during prolonged dry fall and winter periods to prevent root damage.