General gardening

Using Summer Bulbs

Summery bulbs are showy and reliable performers that flourish when the heat is on.

10 Excellent Summer Bulbs

10 excellent summer bulbs to add color to your home garden.

Winter Sown Flowers

Winter Sown Flowers.

Weaving Annuals Into the Garden

There’s Always a Place for Annuals.

Fragrance in the Garden

Moonlight Garden

Heirloom Flowers

Heirloom flowers still grace landscapes, from annuals to perennials, shrubs, vines, and bulbs.

Cut Flower Basics

Flower Gardens

Ask a child to draw a garden, and he'll draw some flowers. Give a gardener no more space than a front stoop, and what will appear there is a flowerpot. For many, flowers are the definition of a garden.

Second Year Gardening

Did you grow your first vegetable garden last year? Was it all that you hoped for? Are you planning to try again this year?

Bees, Glorious Bees

One of the most invaluable living things on the planet is less than one inch long and lives for only a few months – the busy little honeybee.

Monet The Gardener

Flower Prints

Short Season Flower Gardening

Extend the blooming season.

Companion Planting Guide

In plant communities, certain plants support each other while others, well, just don’t get along. Plants, like people, compete for resources.

Gardens for Narrow and Small Spaces

Rooftop Gardening

Cut Flower for Bouquets

Morning Glories

Eager, trainable climbers for cheerful flowers open fresh every morning.

Where have all the flowers gone?

an article by George Ball

Color Basics in the Garden

Color Basics in the Garden.

Creating your own mini meadow garden

Imagine the pleasures of having your own meadow.

The benefits of Bees

All About Hardy Annuals

All annuals have a one year life cycle – they start as a seed, grow, flower, produce a seed and die at the end of the season.