It's risky to prune these early bloomers because you'll most likely be cutting off buds, resulting in fewer flowers. Instead, prune your lilacs and other early blooms as soon as they finish flowering ...

Your birth flower, the carnation, reflects your enduring nature and the beauty found in simplicity. Your birth flower, the violet, speaks of your deep sensitivity and your tendency to find beauty in ...

But you'll need to make sure you go at the right time to catch the flowers when they're blooming. Weather patterns and geographic location can affect the timing for viewing wildflowers, so it's ...

A shrub that looks its best in our garden this time of year is the Ceonothus. Ceanothus bear masses of gorgeous blue flowers in May and June, on otherwise fairly humble shrubs. I have recently seen ...