Winter is a time when most plants in the garden are conserving their energy and you may not see a lot of color around. But there are some plants that are capable of blooming regardless, daring the ...

Here's what you need to know to keep your live Christmas tree looking fresh and healthy all holiday season long.

It’s a simple setup. Eight colorful Adirondack chairs are arranged in a circle around a stacked stone hearth, surrounded, during the growing season, by easy-growing, low-maintenance button bush, ...

Fruits. Consider planting a q (Cydonia bologna). The quince is a pome fruit, sharing that classification with apple and pear, and its pulp texture has been compared to that of a pear. However, unlike ...

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...

If you’re like most well-intentioned gardeners, you might give a lot of thought to planting the “right” plants to nourish pollinators and other wildlife, with nectar, pollen, seeds and fruit. But have ...

When winter sets in and gardens across Britain turn grey and lifeless, it can be tempting to hang up the trowel until spring.

Remarkable underground trees have evolved ingenious survival strategies in harsh landscapes, hiding their trunks and branches beneath the soil. These subterranean forests, found in places like South ...

Snow is nature’s winter insulation, and most of our plants are accustomed to at least some layer of snow protection before the coldest weather of winter arrives,” Don Kinzler writes ...

Clematis cirrhosa var. purpurascens 'Freckles' is an evergreen clematis suitable for hardiness zones 4-9. Its pendant flowers ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Towering talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives, decades after famed Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx ...