You can save a bank or slope from eroding away by adding plants to stabilize the soil. Learn more about these fast-growing ...

Whenever I’m planning a new garden, no matter what mood I’m trying to create, I always include some purple plants. I look for a variety of purple flowering plants including purple flowering bushes, ...

You can grow these flowers on the cheap from seed—no fuss, no muss. Sow seeds for marigolds, zinnias, cosmos and more ...

Perennials, which return for many years, have a valuable place in the garden, providing years of reliable performance and ...

It's an ideal mix of the three different soil particle sizes – sand, silt and clay – and so is generally thought to be the ...

Two of my favorite shade-tolerant perennials are grown primarily for their attractive foliage. Hostas have swordlike bicolor leaves; Heuchera micrantha varieties come in colorful leaf shades including ...

Gardeners on the lookout for low-maintenance, disease-resistant, deer-resistant plants with beautiful flowers, consider ...

I recently explored the Little Harbor Trail in Portsmouth, an amiable walk that meanders from Creek Farm (managed by the ...