With the cost of everyday items going up, especially the cost of food, many people are opting to grow their own food. Others ...

Keeping geraniums for at least five years costs around 40p per plant per year," Jonathan said. Echinacea Known for their daisy-like blooms, a six-pack of young Echinacea plants can be acquired ...

There are other important elements to consider when planning a garden where dogs and plants can safely coexist.

Plants need certain resources throughout the year, including water, sunlight, and air (especially carbon dioxide). Getting ...

I started a home garden with tomatoes, okra, peppers, and berries to help offset my family's expenses. I've learned a lot ...

The Avon Lake Public Library hosts one of 17 ozone gardens in the United States, using plants to detect harmful ozone levels in the community.

Plants that aren’t protected by snow, especially evergreens, can become winter-burned. Exposed needles turn yellow or brown ...

Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) and oxeye daisy (Heliopsis helianthoides) are beautiful garden plants with an extended bloom season lasting well into fall. Clematis have a reputation for ...

and I'm creating a small flower garden, which I plan to fill with echinacea, anise hyssop, and feverfew. I feel confident enough to start more plants from seed and am cold stratifying some seeds ...

Most pollinators work under our radar and are easily overlooked when a garden receives the admiring human gaze. A closer look into the flower of a plant in bloom may reveal a small invertebrate ...

More milkweed plants mean more butterflies. Nectar plants such as asters, beebalms, butterfly bushes, coneflowers, echinacea, goldenrod, Joe Pye weed, lavender, penstemon, salvia, sulfur-flowered ...