Boxwoods are among the best shrubs for landscaping, but what can you plant to break up their dense, often uniform shape? Here ...

Bulb maestro Johnny Walkers, winner of 25 consecutive gold medals at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, has been hosting the annual ...

A cool-season flower that can be set out in early spring, sweet alyssum fades in the summer heat, but its clusters of tiny ...

The ornamental plants called hibiscus are brightly coloured and enticing as those of lodhra trees. Lavender is a low-growing, ...

After planting in the fall, you’ll enjoy an array of flower colors that combine nicely with other spring-flowering trees, ...

Autumn is the perfect time to fill your hanging baskets, window boxes, flowerbeds and containers with winter bedding plants.

The rose plants were sticking new leaves out of the stumps and a solitary straggling pink bloom was defiantly sticking its ...

But in fact the long-lasting flowers of many kinds of ornamental grasses are one of their great charms, effortlessly adding a ...

A geneticist recently discovered the gene that accounts for prickliness across a variety of plants, including roses.

With little to no yard space, these Fairmount neighbors instead create elaborate arrangements of flowers and plants in pots, ...

It grows in colonies of single-stemmed plants. Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) is also called Rose Milkweed. Its leaves ...