Gardeners: throw away those glossy coffee table books. Everything you need to learn is in the black and white planting plans of the grea...

Is it possible to spoil a plant?  According to science, the answer may be 'yes.' After a wet spring, this past June was the hotte...

Ten Bold Native Plants to Update Granny's Cottage Garden I recently read a great article in the British Gardens Illustrated magazine t...

The Gardens of Fernando Caruncho Fernando Caruncho discovered his calling by reading Euripides. The Spanish landscape architect, a celebr...

Article from Science reporter, BBC News "In a small, noisy labratory, tucked away in London's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, a tiny...

My most spectacular garden is the one I’m constantly creating and re-creating in my head. Where budget, space, and lack of time limit real g...

By guest blogger Jeanette Ankoma-Sey Foraging by definition is not sexy: it is plant material eaten by grazing livestock. When the term is ...

If I could banish one word from the English language, it would be "groundcover."  The era of the groundcover must end.  While...

If I could plant only one woody plant in my garden, and I wanted one for year-round beauty, wildlife habitat, and ethnobotanical curiosity, ...