The good news is that, while horned violets work well as ground cover for your lawn, they also look beautiful in window boxes and flower beds. When starting from a seed form, gardeners recommend that ...

Although bugleweed is a beautiful option for ground cover in your yard, there are several other options you may want to ...

Planting plenty of berrying plants is a good way to support birds. They relish berries, stripping many by the new year – ...

Feeling blue? Treat yourself to a trip to your local garden center this fall. But first, check out these blue-blooming spring ...

Violets' cyclotides could revolutionize glioblastoma treatment by boosting chemotherapy efficacy, now advancing to mouse ...

Calvin Finch describes the colors of this vibrant flower like "waxy show paint on the clown’s face at an old-fashioned circus ...

The recent boom in native-plant interest focuses mainly on trees ... Also known as “dog’s tooth violet,” trout lilies (Erythronium americanum) are also foot-tall shade-preferrers that ...

After writing about the fig beetle – a shiny green scarab beetle that feeds on overripe fruit and decomposing organic matter ...

Zinnias provide brilliant colour all summer long and the new Zinnia ‘Zesty’ is a vigorous grower with large double blooms ...

The people I spoke to know things aren’t easy and never will be — but they don’t sink into a doom spiral. They have faith in their communities and themselves.

Here’s a little known fact: the purple-blooming weeds like henbit and deadnettle that are spotted in the spring are growing ...

Posey: At school, Miss Violet told us about the special tubes that transport water up from the roots up towards the flower ... to the tip of the plant. The process is demonstrated with an experiment.