Here's what it costs to grow your own seedlings instead of buying garden starts from your local nursery or hardware store.

Winter sowing gives seeds the chilling period (stratification) they need to break dormancy and germinate. Seeds sown into ...

Sow frisee seeds a quarter-inch deep and at least two inches apart in rows 12 inches apart. Keep the seeds consistently moist ...

US hardiness zone 7 is large and stretches over 28 states in total. It spans from Cape Cod, MA and covers parts of Virginia, ...

They are transforming their urban and suburban plots into tiny family farms, replacing eye-catching beds of tulips, columbines and pine shrubbery with utilitarian rows of dwarf fruit trees, beans and ...

This week's column addresses when to pinch back annual and perennial flowers, characteristics of a good potting mix and caring for indoor azaleas.

I have some shrubs that are too crowded. I read that February and March are the best months to plant or move trees and shrubs. Is that really true given our rainy weather?

Australians have a fascination with corpse flowers, or Amorphophallus titanum — an endangered plant endemic to Sumatra known for emitting a pungent stench to attract insects on the rare occasion ...

The best compost will provide all the nutrients and support needed for seeds and veg to grow and thrive, while the worst will leave you with meagre crops and feeble plants. But the only way to know if ...

Plants deploy cell-surface and intracellular immune receptors to recognize pathogens. In a comparative analysis of 808 angiosperm genomes, we reveal that during plant adaptation to diverse special ...

“Historically, California was in a drought about a third of the time,” said Ann-Marie Benz, a horticulture expert with the California Native Plant Society. “(Native plants) co-evolved with ...