WGN’s “Plant Daddy” Tim Joyce is back to share some weekend gardening tips, including the next steps in the year-long ...

For plenty of colorful petals all through your garden, plant primrose! These water-loving plants appreciate some morning sun ...

The cheeriness of blooming plants can brighten the gloomiest of days, especially during the winter months. How can we bring those beautiful flowers indoors and continue the happiness all season long?

Here are some of this year’s best-performing plant varieties from trial gardens around the country, including Penn State, ...

The new bed of shrubs already supporting other wildlife: more bees, a steady stream of butterflies, and on one particularly remarkable day so many monarchs that the entire patch shimmered.

Choosing plants for your first garden can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. The key is to pick plants that match ...

For 50-plus years, Weidner's Gardens in Encinitas has specialized in 'growing color,' from begonias to poinsettias.

Cool mornings and warm afternoons make for ideal gardening weather, even if it is a bit too dry, and perhaps a bit TOO warm ...

Once our fall foliage is past peak, there is a sense of inevitability. Winter will soon be here. The rainbow of leaves that ...

Libra/reins, flowering signs • Nov. 17-19: VERY fertile, Scorpio/secrets, below-grounders • Moon change: Nov. 20 dark to ...

Coleus can also take direct sun in cooler gardens. Coleus is just as much a favorite houseplant as it is a garden subject.