When you're at the garden center ready to buy perennials, ask yourself these five questions and avoid these common mistakes.

Bare root plants are a great way to fill your garden on the cheap, but there are 8 plants you shouldn't buy as bare roots.

Leaf miners, aphids and bolting the second there’s a bit of heat, for such a simple green, spinach can be tough to grow. Sadly, too many gardeners give up because they’re tired of putting in the time ...

If you're dreaming of summer picnics and backyard barbecues with homegrown sweet corn, you need to get your corn started ...

If you need a little privacy in your yard, but can't or don't want to deal with shrubs, consider these tall perennials for ...

Like most green thumbs, I rarely say no to a trip to the garden center. Who doesn’t love the smell of damp earth and growing ...

Bridal wreath spirea are a beautiful flowering shrub for any garden, but there are a few interesting things about them you ...

The key to a low maintenance and low cost garden is to grow a variety of plants that readily self-seed. While most of the typical garden cultivars would require you to harvest, store, and then sow ...

Lovage (Levisticum officinale) is a hardy perennial herb native to the Mediterranean. As part of the Apiacaea family, it is closely related to carrot, celery, and parsley. This culinary and medicinal ...

From sun up to sun down, bees are doing important work for the health and safety of the hive. Foraging bees will travel up to 5 miles from the colony to gather up pollen for hungry baby bees back at ...