Every spring, gardeners wait for a familiar flash of orange wings to glide into their yards. Monarch butterflies, the symbols ...

Perennials are the mainstay of the garden during the growing season. Many gardeners add annuals to flower beds and containers in summer, to have blooms happening continuously. But there are also ...

As the heat of summer sets in, many plants take a break from flowering, but these stellar selections continue to bloom all season long. From annual bedding plants that just won’t quit, to reblooming ...

The extensive landscaping with native plants around Colonial Lake at the west edge of the Charleston peninsula serves as a mini botanical garden and demonstration area. When I visited last August, I ...

Nature, not always equitable, offers the Catskill Mountains recompense for its harsh winters—bitterly cold and, above all, quiet, save for the howling of the wind and the coyotes—autumn, our most ...

Every spring I make a list of the plants that hummingbirds visited the most the year before, and then my search at garden centers and nurseries begins in earnest. The plants I look for are the ones ...