The most popular element in landscape design is color, but texture is another important building block. Texture in gardening can be seen as well as felt, and is used primarily to provide contrast.

Worried about your gorgeous garden plants getting nibbled and chewed by four-legged feeders? Try these deer-resistant ...

It's completely natural to head out and grab up the most colorful plants you can find, especially this time of year, when garden centers offer a dazzling array of hues after a drab winter. When I ask ...

Years ago, a keen-eyed scientist spotted something unusual - dandelions growing on coarse tailings from the oilsands. Since coarse tailings aren't exactly where you'd expect to see plant life thriving ...

Depending on where you live, it may seem that your garden has seen nine days of gray rain for every 10 days on the calendar. Usually by the latter half of June, the ground near Louisville, Kentucky, ...

Whenever someone says yellow flowers and winter time in the same sentence, I immediately think of forsythia or mahonia as the two most likely choices (yes, witch hazel has yellow flowers but they are ...

Since there was no newsletter last week, here are two weeks of mystery plants: Mexican Petunia --Ruellia simplex is a perennial plant that takes care of itself and blooms all summer long.

Children always seem to be attracted to cacti. The great variety of shapes and sizes makes them fun to collect. Planting them together like this is a fun way to display them. And the good news is that ...

Question: I have some dandelions in my lawn and some coarse grassy weeds in my shrub beds that keep coming back after I dig them up. I can’t seem to get all the root out. Are there chemicals I can ...

The most popular element in landscape design is color, but texture is another important building block. Texture in gardening can be seen as well as felt, and is used primarily to provide contrast.