Fortunately, there is a better option to smother weeds without breaking the bank: ground cover plants, but to ensure they ...

Cuttings from woody plants like hydrangeas, roses, herbs and more is a great way to enhance your yard this time of year.

It’s not, after all, like moving house where we can box up all our favourite belongings and pop them into the removal van to ...

Mt. Cuba has been sharing the results of its horticultural trials since 2003. It chooses popular and widely available species ...

This may be a little-known fact, but fall is the key planting time for a beautiful garden. It's also the key time to give ...

Now that the weather is cooling, you might notice that some of the plants we encounter look nothing like their mid-summer ...

Start with dry leaves — it makes the whole process much easier. Look for maple, oak, and beech leaves, as they make excellent ...

Science has shown that allowing leaves to accumulate in garden beds provides shelter for wildlife and pollinators, a blanket for plant roots and soil moisture, a weed prevention barrier ...

One thing I've noticed is that many people don't want the leaves that they have raked up and oftentimes just send them to the landfill, and this can be a bad thing. Instead of throwing them away, once ...

This is part of a series with Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to toxic-free, nature-based gardening, on how you ...

Technically speaking, the aster family is a botanical crazy quilt of composite bloomers (plants whose inflorescences contain ...