If you want to enhance your home's curb appeal or add seasonal interest to your backyard, a flower garden is the perfect solution. Filled with perennials, annuals, and blooming shrubs, a flower garden ...

First things first: you'll want to choose a place (or places) where your plants will have access to plenty of water and sunlight. Good soil drainage is a must. "You don't want to make a flower bed or ...

As spring approaches, like me, most gardeners are already envisioning a beautiful landscape. For many, the flower bed is the one garden element that serves as the highlight of the landscape. Now is ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. Also known as pot ...

FARGO — What did the young plant say to the old plant during a disagreement? OK, bloomer. In the world of plants, perennial flowers are enjoying the same upswing in popularity as houseplants and ...

When you walk into a nursery or garden center this time of the year, it’s exhilarating — you look around at all of the flowers and feel that the possibilities are limitless. Visions of flowerbeds ...

Nobody ever said gardening offers instant gratification. With this limitation in mind, I dug and made over one of my flower beds last weekend. For the plants, fall is a fine time for a flower-bed ...

When you set out to have a bright, colorful flower bed in your yard, the last thing you want is to to be distracted by bare spots disrupting the flow of otherwise abundant planting, creating an ...